Which to use
“premonition” and “preposition” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,417
- “premonition” frequency rank
- #46,113
- “preposition” frequency rank
- 90530
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | premonition | preposition |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future. | Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word. |
Where the spellings diverge
Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set premonition and preposition apart are highlighted. They share 9 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
premonition and preposition form a confusable pair in the English index, two distinct headwords that are easily confused because they look alike, sound alike, or both. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions - close enough that the eye skips over the difference, far enough that meaning fully diverges. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
premonition is recorded at frequency rank #44,417, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/. preposition is at rank #46,113, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 90530, this pair ranks #4,107 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Frequency comparison
Frequently Asked Questions
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Remembering premonition vs preposition
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- Read both glosses above and match the meaning you intend, only context separates this pair.
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