préfériez
\pʁe.fe.ʁje\
The verdict
“préfériez” is uncommon French (frequency #57,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de préférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preferiez · préfériez · French
préfériez · rank #57,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,527
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préfectoraux
Nearest frequency peer: préfectoraux (-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 « préfériez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- promeuvent
promeuvent
42,477 corpus weight
- propulsés
propulsés
42,476 corpus weight
- préfectoraux
préfectoraux
42,475 corpus weight
- préfériez
préfériez
42,474 corpus weight
- présentais
présentais
42,472 corpus weight
- présidant
présidant
42,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfériez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfériez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.fe.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfériez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfériez is uncommon French at frequency #57,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.fe.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for préfériez, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 préfériez, spelled P-R-É-F-É-R-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de préférer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).