préférentielle
\pʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃.sjɛl\
The verdict
“préférentielle” is uncommon French (frequency #61,809 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,809
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de préférentiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preferentielle · préférentielle · French
préférentielle · rank #61,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,809
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pulpeuses
Nearest frequency peer: pulpeuses (+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 « préférentielle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prophétiques
prophétiques
38,197 corpus weight
- prs
prs
38,195 corpus weight
- préexistant
préexistant
38,194 corpus weight
- préférentie…
préférentielle
38,192 corpus weight
- pulpeuses
pulpeuses
38,191 corpus weight
- PwC
PwC
38,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préférentielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préférentielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #61,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préférentielle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préférentielle is uncommon French at frequency #61,809 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃.sjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de préférentiel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for préférentielle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is préférentielle, spelled P-R-É-F-É-R-E-N-T-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de préférentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how préférentielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exportateur enregistré sur le système REX et pouvant auto-certifier l’origine préférentielle d’une marchandise en recourant à la mention « Attestation d’origine » sur les documents commerciaux pour l’identification des marchandises.
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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