proverbiale
\pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal\
The verdict
“proverbiale” is uncommon French (frequency #76,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de proverbial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proverbiale · proverbiale · French
proverbiale · rank #76,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,038
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protozoaires
Nearest frequency peer: protozoaires (-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 « proverbiale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- promenés
promenés
23,966 corpus weight
- prophétesse
prophétesse
23,965 corpus weight
- protozoaires
protozoaires
23,964 corpus weight
- proverbiale
proverbiale
23,963 corpus weight
- prédisaient
prédisaient
23,962 corpus weight
- prédéfinis
prédéfinis
23,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proverbiale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proverbiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proverbiale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proverbiale is uncommon French at frequency #76,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de proverbial.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for proverbiale, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is proverbiale, spelled P-R-O-V-E-R-B-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de proverbial.
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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