première
"premiere" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“première” is uncommon English (frequency #78,041 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,041
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of premiere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-premiere · première · English
première · rank #78,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,041
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prepositional
Nearest frequency peer: prepositional (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “première”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pongo
pongo
21,966 corpus weight
- pott
pott
21,965 corpus weight
- powerboat
powerboat
21,964 corpus weight
- première
première
21,960 corpus weight
- preposition…
prepositional
21,959 corpus weight
- pressings
pressings
21,957 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “première” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | première |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “première” in English
Rare enough to double-check
première is uncommon English at frequency #78,041 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of premiere.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for première, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is première, spelled P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of premiere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how première appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At yet another première, she watches William file out of the theatre with Agnes at his side.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).