précisent
\pʁe.siz\
The verdict
“précisent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,534
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préciser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-precisent · précisent · French
précisent · rank #20,534 · 15 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,534
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH provençal
Nearest frequency peer: provençal (-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 « précisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prothèse
prothèse
79,470 corpus weight
- proue
proue
79,469 corpus weight
- provençal
provençal
79,468 corpus weight
- précisent
précisent
79,467 corpus weight
- préjugé
préjugé
79,466 corpus weight
- prématuréme…
prématurément
79,464 corpus weight
What this shows « précisent » 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 | précisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.siz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « précisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around précisent (IPA \pʁe.siz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,534 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for précisent, with forms such as "pprécisent", "prcéisent", and "precisent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "présent", "préciser", "prévient", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 précisent, spelled P-R-É-C-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préciser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de préciser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how précisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le Négro-Africain, et de manière générale, si le "chat" est le "chat", le "lion", le "lion", le "margouillat" le "margouillat" et le "criquet" le "criquet", c’est que ces "êtres" sont précisément des éléments spécifiques d’abord, actualisables ensuite dans des contextes qui les précisent mais sans pour autant les dé-spécifier ni les dé-sensualiser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprécisent
- prcéisent
- precisent
- prrécisent
- préccisent
- préciesnt
- précisennt
- précisentt
- précisetn
- précisnet
- précissent
- précsient
- préicsent
- pércisent
- rpécisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of précisent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).