en premier
\ɑ̃ pʁə.mje\
The verdict
“en premier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’abord, pour commencer, au premier rang, en avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-en-premier · en premier · French
en premier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en premier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ pʁə.mje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
en premier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɑ̃ pʁə.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for en premier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is en premier, spelled E-N- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1D’abord, pour commencer, au premier rang, en avant.
- 2Il se dit spécialement pour marquer le degré le plus élevé de certains grades militaires qui en ont plusieurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how en premier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En premier, nous avons fait telle chose.
Je suis arrivée en premier.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.