proximus
The verdict
“proximus” is uncommon French (frequency #51,678 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,678
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le plus proche, qui est très près, qui est le plus près, très proche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proximus · proximus · French
proximus · rank #51,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protocol
Nearest frequency peer: protocol (-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 « proximus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- professoral
professoral
48,326 corpus weight
- programmati…
programmations
48,325 corpus weight
- protocol
protocol
48,324 corpus weight
- proximus
proximus
48,323 corpus weight
- présidences
présidences
48,322 corpus weight
- psychopatho…
psychopathologie
48,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proximus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proximus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proximus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proximus is uncommon French at frequency #51,678 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for proximus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is proximus, spelled P-R-O-X-I-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Le plus proche, qui est très près, qui est le plus près, très proche.
- 2Le plus rapproché (dans le passé ou dans l'avenir); le dernier ou le prochain, le suivant.
- 3Qui est à portée de la main, sous la main, facile, clair, évident.
- 4Le plus proche (parent), le plus intime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proximus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
proximus vicinus
de proximo senatus consulto disserere
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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