prejudge
"prejudge" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prejudge” is uncommon English (frequency #89,790 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,790
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To form a judgment of (something) in advance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prejudge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prejudge” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prejudge is uncommon English at frequency #89,790 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To form a judgment of (something) in advance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prejudge, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French préjuger, itself an adaptation of Latin praeudico, praeiudicare. Doublet of prejudicate. The correct English form is prejudge, spelled P-R-E-J-U-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1To form a judgment of (something) in advance.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French préjuger, itself an adaptation of Latin praeudico, praeiudicare. Doublet of prejudicate.
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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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prejudge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-E-J-U-D-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.