proximité
\pʁɔk.si.mi.te\
The verdict
“proximité” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,970 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,970
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Voisinage d’une chose à l’égard d’une autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proximité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “proximité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proximité is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,970 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for proximité, with forms such as "porximité", "pproximité", and "proixmité". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is proximité, spelled P-R-O-X-I-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Voisinage d’une chose à l’égard d’une autre.
- 2Rapprochement dans le temps.
- 3Parenté qui est entre deux personnes.
- 4(Médias sociaux) proximité comportementale
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porximité,pproximité,proixmité,proxiimté,proximite,proximitté,proximiét,proximmité,proximtié,proxmiité,proxximité,prroximité,prxoimité,rpoximité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of proximité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “proximité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-X-I-M-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.