préalablement
\pʁe.a.la.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“préalablement” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,560
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avant toute autre chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prealablement · préalablement · French
préalablement · rank #10,560 · 21 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,560
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH provoquant
Nearest frequency peer: provoquant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “préalablement”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- propice
propice
89,444 corpus weight
- protagonist…
protagonistes
89,443 corpus weight
- provoquant
provoquant
89,442 corpus weight
- préalableme…
préalablement
89,441 corpus weight
- préparez
préparez
89,440 corpus weight
- préparés
préparés
89,439 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “préalablement” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préalablement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁe.a.la.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #10,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “préalablement” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around préalablement (IPA \pʁe.a.la.blə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #10,560 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Avant toute autre chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for préalablement, with forms such as "ppréalablement", "praélablement", and "prealablement". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is préalablement, spelled P-R-É-A-L-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avant toute autre chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préalablement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n'est rien d'ordonner des actes, si préalablement on n'est pas maître des pensées ; pour gouverner le monde des corps, il faut dominer celui des esprits.
J’en ai pris une portion avec un bouchon de liége neuf légèrement humecté par la respiration, et j’en ai frotté la surface de la pièce d’argent que je désirais vermeiller après l’avoir préalablement décapée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréalablement
- praélablement
- prealablement
- prréalablement
- préaalblement
- préalabblement
- préalabelment
- préalableemnt
- préalablemennt
- préalablementt
- préalablemetn
- préalablemment
- préalablemnet
- préalabllement
- préalablmeent
- préalalbement
- préalbalement
- préallablement
- prélaablement
- péralablement
- rpéalablement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préalablement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "préalablement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.