prednisone
\pʁɛd.ni.zɔn\
The verdict
“prednisone” is uncommon French (frequency #89,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corticostéroïde à usage médicamenteux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prednisone · prednisone · French
prednisone · rank #89,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,017
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pratiquera
Nearest frequency peer: pratiquera (-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 « prednisone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- porcinet
porcinet
10,987 corpus weight
- Pourim
Pourim
10,986 corpus weight
- pratiquera
pratiquera
10,985 corpus weight
- prednisone
prednisone
10,984 corpus weight
- presented
presented
10,983 corpus weight
- privatisés
privatisés
10,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prednisone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prednisone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛd.ni.zɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prednisone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prednisone is uncommon French at frequency #89,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɛd.ni.zɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Corticostéroïde à usage médicamenteux.".
prednisone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prednisone, spelled P-R-E-D-N-I-S-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Corticostéroïde à usage médicamenteux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prednisone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maximilian Kohler que sa perfusion de cromolyne et de prednisone commençait à revigorer ouvrit les yeux.
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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