prairie
\pʁɛ.ʁi\
The verdict
“prairie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,838. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,838
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prairie · prairie · French
prairie · rank #12,838 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,838
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poêle
Nearest frequency peer: poêle (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prairie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plane
plane
87,166 corpus weight
- poêle
poêle
87,164 corpus weight
- prairie
prairie
87,163 corpus weight
- produisant
produisant
87,162 corpus weight
- project
project
87,161 corpus weight
- provinciaux
provinciaux
87,160 corpus weight
What this shows « prairie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prairie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prairie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around prairie (IPA \pʁɛ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,838 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prairie, with forms such as "paririe", "pprairie", and "praiire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prairies", "paire", "parié", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prairie, spelled P-R-A-I-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pré.
- 2Plaine herbeuse américaine.
- 3Pâture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prairie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien que, par intervalles, de brèves et pâles soleillées courussent sur les chemins défoncés, sur les prairies semées de flaques miroitantes, on pressentait que l'accalmie serait de peu de durée, et que l'averse recommencerait avant la fin du jour.
Le jour parut, frileux et triste… De grandes brumes traînaient sur les prairies, le ciel était bas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- paririe
- pprairie
- praiire
- prairei
- prairrie
- prariie
- priarie
- prrairie
- rpairie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prairie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prairie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).