prédatrice
\pʁe.da.tʁis\
The verdict
“prédatrice” is uncommon French (frequency #68,576 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,576
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal qui chasse d’autres animaux pour s’en nourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-predatrice · prédatrice · French
prédatrice · rank #68,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,576
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précession
Nearest frequency peer: précession (-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 « prédatrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- provocantes
provocantes
31,427 corpus weight
- précession
précession
31,426 corpus weight
- prédatrice
prédatrice
31,425 corpus weight
- prédications
prédications
31,424 corpus weight
- prédéterminé
prédéterminé
31,423 corpus weight
- prélevant
prélevant
31,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prédatrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prédatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.da.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prédatrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prédatrice is uncommon French at frequency #68,576 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.da.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for prédatrice in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prédatrice, spelled P-R-É-D-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Animal qui chasse d’autres animaux pour s’en nourrir.
- 2Celle qui considère les autres comme des proies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prédatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première [abeille], aux rayures caractéristiques noires et jaunes, est une prédatrice carnivore individualiste qui ne fabrique pas de miel et possède la faculté, grâce à son aiguillon lisse, de piquer plusieurs fois.
Elle commençait de même à s’accoutumer à la souffrance — un concept absent de sa mémoire mentale et organique — qui la cernait à la façon d’une prédatrice omniprésente et tenace.
This word in other languages
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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