prescience
/ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/
"prescience" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prescience” is uncommon English (frequency #84,629 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,629
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Knowledge of events before they take place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-prescience · prescience · English
prescience · rank #84,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,629
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH preternatural
Nearest frequency peer: preternatural (+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 “prescience”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- prang
prang
15,376 corpus weight
- preferment
preferment
15,374 corpus weight
- prescience
prescience
15,372 corpus weight
- preternatur…
preternatural
15,371 corpus weight
- protozoan
protozoan
15,370 corpus weight
- psychogenic
psychogenic
15,367 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “prescience” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prescience |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “prescience” in English
Rare enough to double-check
prescience is uncommon English at frequency #84,629 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prescience, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia. The correct English form is prescience, spelled P-R-E-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Knowledge of events before they take place.
- 2Knowledge of events before they take place.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prescience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents
O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd, The book of fate so slowly given, I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd From man the prescience of heaven.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.
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); 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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