préférable

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for préférable is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.fe.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,613 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui mérite d’être préféré ; qui doit être préféré.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for préférable, with forms such as "ppréférable", "preferable", and "prféérable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is préférable, spelled P-R-É-F-É-R-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.