préavis
\pʁe.a.vi\
The verdict
“préavis” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,646. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,646
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avertissement, avis qui précède le fait qu’il annonce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preavis · préavis · French
préavis · rank #12,646 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,646
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promets
Nearest frequency peer: promets (-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 « préavis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- principauté
principauté
87,358 corpus weight
- processeur
processeur
87,357 corpus weight
- promets
promets
87,356 corpus weight
- préavis
préavis
87,355 corpus weight
- préférées
préférées
87,354 corpus weight
- puces
puces
87,353 corpus weight
What this shows « préavis » 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 | préavis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.a.vi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préavis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around préavis (IPA \pʁe.a.vi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,646 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for préavis, with forms such as "ppréavis", "praévis", and "preavis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prévus", "prédis", "preuves", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 préavis, spelled P-R-É-A-V-I-S.
Definition
- 1Avertissement, avis qui précède le fait qu’il annonce.
- 2Délai qui s’écoule entre la date de l’annonce et la réalisation effective de la chose annoncée.
- 3Avis d’un organisme consulté avant une décision d’une autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préavis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, à l’heure où les intellectuels sont exécutés sans préavis, il est bizarrement l’un des rares écrivains à faire son marché en plein jour sans regarder à droite et à gauche.
La grève pourrait-elle se prolonger au-delà de mercredi matin ? "Tout dépendra de la teneur des discussions mardi avec la direction. Comme un préavis de grève a été déposé, les éventuels débrayages spontanés seront couverts", indique Stéphane Daussaint.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréavis
- praévis
- preavis
- prréavis
- préaivs
- préaviss
- préavsi
- préavvis
- prévais
- péravis
- rpéavis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préavis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).