précipiter
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,975
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
précipiter is aFrenchverb. It means: Jeter, faire tomber d’un lieu élevé. Pronounced \pʁe.si.pi.te\. Often confused with précipités and précipité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | précipiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.si.pi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for précipiter is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.si.pi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,975 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for précipiter, with forms such as "pprécipiter", "prcéipiter", and "precipiter". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "précipités", "précipité", "précipice", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is précipiter, spelled P-R-É-C-I-P-I-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeter, faire tomber d’un lieu élevé.
- 2Faire tomber dans un grand malheur, dans une grande disgrâce, dans un grand danger.
- 3: hâter, accélérer, rendre prompt et rapide.
- 4Extraire, par une réaction chimique, une matière solide d’une solution et la rassembler au fond du récipient.
- 5Extraire, par une réaction chimique, une matière solide d’une solution et la rassembler au fond du récipient.
- 6S’élancer, aller impétueusement, s’avancer rapidement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pprécipiter,prcéipiter,precipiter,prrécipiter,préccipiter,préciipter,précipietr,précipiterr,précipitre,précipitter,précippiter,préciptier,précpiiter,préicpiter,pércipiter,rpécipiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for précipiter
Misspelling Variants of "précipiter"
Frequency rank: #15,975 in French
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