préconisant
\pʁe.kɔ.ni.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“préconisant” is uncommon French (frequency #56,196 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,196
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe préconiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preconisant · préconisant · French
préconisant · rank #56,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,196
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propageant
Nearest frequency peer: propageant (-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 « préconisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prolifiques
prolifiques
43,808 corpus weight
- promettons
promettons
43,807 corpus weight
- propageant
propageant
43,806 corpus weight
- préconisant
préconisant
43,805 corpus weight
- préférerai
préférerai
43,804 corpus weight
- Puech
Puech
43,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préconisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préconisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.kɔ.ni.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préconisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préconisant is uncommon French at frequency #56,196 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.kɔ.ni.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe préconiser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for préconisant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is préconisant, spelled P-R-É-C-O-N-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe préconiser.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).