pré

\pʁe\

/\pʁe\/ noun

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The verdict

“pré” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,849) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,849
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Champ où pousse de l’herbe (naturelle ou cultivée), où l’on recueille du foin, ou qui sert au pâturage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pre · pré · French

pré · rank #2,849 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,849
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prof

Nearest frequency peer: prof (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pré »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « pré » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pré vs pu
33% similar
pré vs PS
0% similar
pré vs PV
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pré
PropertyValue
Headwordpré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁe\
Letters3
Frequency rank#2,849
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pré »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prof » (#2,848), « pétrole » (#2,850), « procureur » (#2,847). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pré » est au #2,849. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pré is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pʁe\. Frequency #2,849 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pré, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 pré, spelled P-R-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Champ où pousse de l’herbe (naturelle ou cultivée), où l’on recueille du foin, ou qui sert au pâturage.
  2. 2
    Lieu où a lieu un duel.
  3. 3
    Bagne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un bon terrain peut fournir jusqu’à cent milliers de betteraves par hectare, j’en ai même récolté jusqu’à cent vingt sur un pré nouvellement défriché, […].
  2. Le Caux est une terre à blé, mais la vallée verdoyante du Bray est un immense et magnifique pâturage où un élevage intensif se pratique dans des prés incomparables.

This word in other languages

meadow(English)dehesa(Español)Wiese(Deutsch)prado(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pré"?
"pré" is spelled P-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe\.
What does "pré" mean?
As a noun, "pré" means: Champ où pousse de l’herbe (naturelle ou cultivée), où l’on recueille du foin, ou qui sert au pâturage.
What words are commonly confused with "pré"?
"pré" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PV". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pré" is \pʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pré" come from?
"pré" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pré", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

man#2,835bat#2,865sec#2,897ira#2,932

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list