précieuse
\pʁe.sjøz\
The verdict
“précieuse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,603
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme affectée dans son air, dans ses manières et surtout dans son langage. À l’origine, ce mot n’était pas pris au sens péjoratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-precieuse · précieuse · French
précieuse · rank #8,603 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,603
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poètes
Nearest frequency peer: poètes (-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 « précieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- possédait
possédait
91,401 corpus weight
- pourvoir
pourvoir
91,400 corpus weight
- poètes
poètes
91,399 corpus weight
- précieuse
précieuse
91,398 corpus weight
- punition
punition
91,396 corpus weight
- qualificati…
qualifications
91,395 corpus weight
What this shows « précieuse » 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 | précieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « précieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around précieuse (IPA \pʁe.sjøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,603 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme affectée dans son air, dans ses manières et surtout dans son langage. À l’origine, ce mot n’était pas pris au sens péjoratif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for précieuse, with forms such as "pprécieuse", "prcéieuse", and "precieuse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "précieux", "précieuses", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is précieuse, spelled P-R-É-C-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme affectée dans son air, dans ses manières et surtout dans son langage. À l’origine, ce mot n’était pas pris au sens péjoratif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how précieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Précieuses ridicules.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprécieuse
- prcéieuse
- precieuse
- prrécieuse
- préccieuse
- préceiuse
- préciesue
- précieues
- précieusse
- préciuese
- préiceuse
- pércieuse
- rpécieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of précieuse - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).