se prosterner
\sə pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“se prosterner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se baisser jusqu’à terre, en signe d’adoration ou en posture de suppliant, se jeter à genoux aux pieds de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-prosterner · se prosterner · French
se prosterner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se prosterner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
se prosterner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for se prosterner in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 se prosterner, spelled S-E- -P-R-O-S-T-E-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se baisser jusqu’à terre, en signe d’adoration ou en posture de suppliant, se jeter à genoux aux pieds de quelqu’un.
- 2Reconnaître, avouer la supériorité de quelqu’un en quelque genre que ce soit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se prosterner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les temps étaient bien changés, mais de ferventes ouailles s’étaient prosternées devant la statue, avaient renoué les liens rompus par les ans, capté, en quelque sorte, la Vierge dans un filet de prières […].
A la même occasion je fus témoin de la réception d'une délégation de la communauté israélite de Settat. Arrivée à une distance respectueuse des tentes de Si Ahmed, elle se prosterna très bas et déposa son offrande de soieries, après quoi elle fut congédiée d'un geste hautain, sans une parole.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.