prêchant
\pʁɛ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“prêchant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,558 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,558
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de prêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prechant · prêchant · French
prêchant · rank #59,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,558
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévoie
Nearest frequency peer: prévoie (-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 « prêchant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédominent
prédominent
40,446 corpus weight
- prégnante
prégnante
40,445 corpus weight
- prévoie
prévoie
40,444 corpus weight
- prêchant
prêchant
40,443 corpus weight
- PSC
PSC
40,442 corpus weight
- puants
puants
40,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prêchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prêchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prêchant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prêchant is uncommon French at frequency #59,558 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛ.ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de prêcher.".
prêchant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 prêchant, spelled P-R-Ê-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de prêcher.
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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