prédestiner
\pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne\
The verdict
“prédestiner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vouer d’avance au salut ou à la damnation, selon la doctrine de la prédestination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-predestiner · prédestiner · French
prédestiner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prédestiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
prédestiner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prédestiner has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 prédestiner, spelled P-R-É-D-E-S-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Vouer d’avance au salut ou à la damnation, selon la doctrine de la prédestination.
- 2Choisir de toute éternité, élire une personne ou une autre au salut, à la damnation éternelle, en parlant de Dieu.
- 3Produire un destin qu’il semble qu’on ne pourrait éviter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prédestiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il écrivit, environ en 867, le De Prædestinatione pour établir que nous ne sommes pas prédestinés par Dieu au pêché, contrairement à ce qu'avait soutenu Gottschalk.
Dieu avait prédestiné Moïse pour être le conducteur de son peuple.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.