preferer
\pre.fe.ˈrɛr\
The verdict
“preferer” is uncommon French (frequency #96,259 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,259
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preferer · preferer · French
preferer · rank #96,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,259
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pommeraie
Nearest frequency peer: pommeraie (-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 « preferer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polder
polder
3,746 corpus weight
- polygonal
polygonal
3,745 corpus weight
- Pombal
Pombal
3,744 corpus weight
- pommeraie
pommeraie
3,743 corpus weight
- preferer
preferer
3,742 corpus weight
- preservation
preservation
3,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « preferer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preferer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pre.fe.ˈrɛr\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « preferer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
preferer is uncommon French at frequency #96,259 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pre.fe.ˈrɛr\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Préférer.".
preferer has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is preferer, spelled P-R-E-F-E-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Préférer.
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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