proximité

/\pʁɔk.si.mi.te\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,970

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

proximité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voisinage d’une chose à l’égard d’une autre. Pronounced \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\. It ranks #1,970 in French word frequency.

Key facts for proximité
PropertyValue
Headwordproximité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔk.si.mi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,970
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of proximité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for proximité is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for proximité, with forms such as "porximité", "pproximité", and "proixmité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is proximité, spelled P-R-O-X-I-M-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voisinage d’une chose à l’égard d’une autre.
  2. 2
    Rapprochement dans le temps.
  3. 3
    Parenté qui est entre deux personnes.
  4. 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proximité

Misspelling Variants of "proximité"

porximité9pproximité10proixmité9proxiimté9proximite9proximitté10proximiét9proximmité10
Misspelling Variants of "proximité"

Frequency rank: #1,970 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "proximité"?
"proximité" is spelled P-R-O-X-I-M-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\.
What does "proximité" mean?
As a noun, "proximité" means: Voisinage d’une chose à l’égard d’une autre.
What are common misspellings of "proximité"?
Common misspellings include "porximité", "pproximité", "proixmité", "proxiimté", "proximite". The correct spelling is "proximité".
How do you pronounce "proximité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "proximité" is \pʁɔk.si.mi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "proximité" come from?
"proximité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.