préfacer
French, verb\pʁe.fa.se\
préfacer is spelled P-R-É-F-A-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préfacer is a French verb meaning “to write a preface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire une préface pour (un livre)”.
What does préfacer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to write a preface
C'était le temps où (...) Jules Lemaître, de l'Académie française, nationaliste des Champs-Élysées, préfaçait de petits bouquins charmants consacrés au Chat noir et illustrés par Gus Bofa. (Fargue, Piéton Paris, 1939)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Écrire une préface pour (un livre).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of préfacer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- préfaçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- préfacé participle past
- préface first-person indicative present
- préfaces indicative present second-person
- préfaçons first-person indicative plural
- préfacez indicative plural present
- préfacent indicative plural present
- préfaçais first-person imperfect indicative
- préfaçait imperfect indicative singular
- préfacions first-person imperfect indicative
- préfaciez imperfect indicative plural
- préfaçaient imperfect indicative plural
- préfaçai first-person historic indicative
- préfaças historic indicative past
- préfaça historic indicative past
- préfaçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce préfacer?
- \pʁe.fa.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to préfacer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is préfacer in French?
préfacer appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).