prytanée
\pʁi.ta.ne\
The verdict
“prytanée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,984 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,984
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édifice qui était destiné à l’habitation des prytanes et qui servait encore à d’autres usages civils et religieux, dans la Grèce antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prytanee · prytanée · French
prytanée · rank #87,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,984
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prouveront
Nearest frequency peer: prouveront (-2 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 « prytanée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- protohistoi…
protohistoire
12,021 corpus weight
- protubéranc…
protubérances
12,020 corpus weight
- prouveront
prouveront
12,019 corpus weight
- prytanée
prytanée
12,017 corpus weight
- présenterais
présenterais
12,015 corpus weight
- psalmiste
psalmiste
12,014 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prytanée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prytanée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.ta.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prytanée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prytanée is uncommon French at frequency #87,984 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.ta.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for prytanée in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prytanée, spelled P-R-Y-T-A-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Édifice qui était destiné à l’habitation des prytanes et qui servait encore à d’autres usages civils et religieux, dans la Grèce antique.
- 2Maison d’instruction publique, avant le rétablissement de l’université.
- 3Lycée militaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prytanée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des villes considérables de la Grèce avaient leur prytanée.
Chez les Athéniens, on entretenait dans le prytanée les citoyens qui avaient rendu des services importants ou qui avaient remporté des prix aux jeux olympiques.
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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