préciser
\pʁe.si.ze\
The verdict
“préciser” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,419
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fixer, déterminer davantage, voire exactement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preciser · préciser · French
préciser · rank #3,419 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,419
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poète
Nearest frequency peer: poète (-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 « préciser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parlementai…
parlementaire
96,585 corpus weight
- personnelle…
personnellement
96,584 corpus weight
- poète
poète
96,583 corpus weight
- préciser
préciser
96,582 corpus weight
- rends
rends
96,581 corpus weight
- réfugiés
réfugiés
96,580 corpus weight
What this shows « préciser » 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 | préciser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.si.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préciser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around préciser (IPA \pʁe.si.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,419 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for préciser, with forms such as "ppréciser", "prcéiser", and "preciser". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "premier", "presser", "précité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is préciser, spelled P-R-É-C-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fixer, déterminer davantage, voire exactement.
- 2Devenir plus clair, plus net, plus sûr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préciser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré les soleillées qui précisaient les dessins délicats des ramilles s’enchevêtrant, la forêt de la Côte, dominant le village, restait maussade et grise.
Vous verrez voir qu’il va revenir ! précisa d’un ton narquois la débitante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréciser
- prcéiser
- preciser
- prréciser
- précciser
- préciesr
- préciserr
- précisre
- précisser
- précsier
- préicser
- pérciser
- rpéciser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préciser - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "préciser", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).