prédation
\pʁe.da.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prédation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,547
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de capture d’une proie par son prédateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-predation · prédation · French
prédation · rank #36,547 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,547
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH programmeurs
Nearest frequency peer: programmeurs (-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 « prédation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- presto
presto
63,457 corpus weight
- produisaient
produisaient
63,456 corpus weight
- programmeurs
programmeurs
63,455 corpus weight
- prédation
prédation
63,454 corpus weight
- prédisposit…
prédisposition
63,453 corpus weight
- psychotique
psychotique
63,451 corpus weight
What this shows « prédation » 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 | prédation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.da.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prédation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prédation (IPA \pʁe.da.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,547 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prédation, with forms such as "pprédation", "prdéation", and "predation". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "predator", "privation", "probation", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prédation, spelled P-R-É-D-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de capture d’une proie par son prédateur.
- 2Action nuisible à autrui ou à l’environnement ; comportement de prédateur envers sa propre espèce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prédation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vue de loin, la nature semble harmonieuse. Vue de près, on y observe que les plantes cherchent à s’étouffer les unes les autres et que les animaux utilisent la prédation et le parasitisme.
Pour la sociologue Monique Pinçon-Charlot, les riches font subir au reste de la société une violence inouïe. Une violence banalisée grâce à un renversement du langage : les riches seraient des victimes, menacées par l’avidité du peuple. Elle dénonce un processus de déshumanisation, une logique de prédation, une caste qui casse le reste de la société.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprédation
- prdéation
- predation
- prrédation
- préadtion
- prédaiton
- prédatino
- prédationn
- prédatoin
- prédattion
- préddation
- prédtaion
- pérdation
- rpédation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prédation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).