préfaces
\pʁe.fas\
The verdict
“préfaces” is uncommon French (frequency #51,065 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,065
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de préface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefaces · préfaces · French
préfaces · rank #51,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,065
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précarisation
Nearest frequency peer: précarisation (-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 « préfaces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- progressisme
progressisme
48,939 corpus weight
- promenez
promenez
48,938 corpus weight
- précarisati…
précarisation
48,937 corpus weight
- préfaces
préfaces
48,936 corpus weight
- préventivem…
préventivement
48,935 corpus weight
- pédicure
pédicure
48,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfaces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.fas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfaces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfaces is uncommon French at frequency #51,065 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.fas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de préface.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for préfaces, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is préfaces, spelled P-R-É-F-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de préface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how préfaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous avons eu le bonheur de recueillir deux préfaces signées par le chanteur et écrivain Gaël Faye et par le prix Nobel de la Paix 2011 Leymah Gbowee », ajoute l’entrepreneure.
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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