prayer
\ˈpɹɛɹ\
The verdict
“prayer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prière, oraison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prayer · prayer · French
prayer · rank #64,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,017
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH praia
Nearest frequency peer: praia (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- postait
postait
35,987 corpus weight
- PQR
PQR
35,986 corpus weight
- praia
praia
35,985 corpus weight
- prayer
prayer
35,984 corpus weight
- progestérone
progestérone
35,982 corpus weight
- promulguées
promulguées
35,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɹɛɹ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prayer is uncommon French at frequency #64,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɹɛɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prière, oraison.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prayer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prayer, spelled P-R-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prière, oraison.
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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