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 eye mixes premonition and preposition
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses premonition with preposition
A purely visual mix-up. premonition (/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/) and preposition (/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. 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.
Orthographic DNA of premonition vs preposition
Shared letters: einoprt. Private to "premonition": m. Private to "preposition": s.
"premonition" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVVC · "preposition" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- premonition ← permonition · ppremonition · premmonition · premnoition · premointion · premoniiton · premonision · premonitino
- preposition ← perposition · ppreposition · preopsition · prepoistion · preposiiton · preposision · prepositino · prepositionn
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "premonition" for "preposition" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "premonition" or "preposition" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "premonition" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "preposition" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #4,107 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "premonition" and "preposition" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "precondition vs premonition". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #4,107 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.