préférèrent
\pʁe.fe.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“préférèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,072 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,072
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de préférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefererent · préférèrent · French
préférèrent · rank #90,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,072
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précolombienne
Nearest frequency peer: précolombienne (-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 « préférèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- proéminence
proéminence
9,932 corpus weight
- Précambrien
Précambrien
9,931 corpus weight
- précolombie…
précolombienne
9,930 corpus weight
- préférèrent
préférèrent
9,929 corpus weight
- pusher
pusher
9,928 corpus weight
- pédalage
pédalage
9,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préférèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préférèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.fe.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préférèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préférèrent is uncommon French at frequency #90,072 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.fe.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de préférer.".
préférèrent has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is préférèrent, spelled P-R-É-F-É-R-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de préférer.
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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