prouvons
\pʁu.vɔ̃\
The verdict
“prouvons” is uncommon French (frequency #86,060 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,060
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe prouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prouvons · prouvons · French
prouvons · rank #86,060 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,060
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protégea
Nearest frequency peer: protégea (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prouvons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- protected
protected
13,944 corpus weight
- protestait
protestait
13,943 corpus weight
- protégea
protégea
13,942 corpus weight
- prouvons
prouvons
13,941 corpus weight
- provoqueront
provoqueront
13,940 corpus weight
- précéda
précéda
13,939 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prouvons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prouvons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁu.vɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prouvons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prouvons is uncommon French at frequency #86,060 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁu.vɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for prouvons in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prouvons, spelled P-R-O-U-V-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe prouver.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe prouver.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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