préalables
\pʁe.a.labl\
The verdict
“préalables” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,736
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de préalable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prealables · préalables · French
préalables · rank #21,736 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,736
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prospérer
Nearest frequency peer: prospérer (-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 « préalables »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pronom
pronom
78,268 corpus weight
- propension
propension
78,267 corpus weight
- prospérer
prospérer
78,266 corpus weight
- préalables
préalables
78,265 corpus weight
- précoces
précoces
78,264 corpus weight
- préférais
préférais
78,263 corpus weight
What this shows « préalables » 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 | préalables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.a.labl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préalables »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around préalables (IPA \pʁe.a.labl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,736 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de préalable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for préalables, with forms such as "ppréalables", "praélables", and "prealables". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "préalable", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is préalables, spelled P-R-É-A-L-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de préalable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how préalables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déjà, dans une des discussions relatives à la septicémie, auxquelles j’ai pris part, j’ai exprimé le vœu que l’on mît à profit cette possibilité de septicémiser les lapins à volonté pour expérimenter les moyens thérapeutiques que l’on pouvait opposer à la septicémie, soit en préparant l’organisme à lui résister par une médication ou un régime préalables,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréalables
- praélables
- prealables
- prréalables
- préaalbles
- préalabbles
- préalabels
- préalabless
- préalablles
- préalablse
- préalalbes
- préalbales
- préallables
- prélaables
- péralables
- rpéalables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préalables - 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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