préfets
\pʁe.fɛ\
The verdict
“préfets” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de préfet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefets · préfets · French
préfets · rank #14,772 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,772
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précipitation
Nearest frequency peer: précipitation (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « préfets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proportionn…
proportionnel
85,232 corpus weight
- protections
protections
85,231 corpus weight
- précipitati…
précipitation
85,230 corpus weight
- préfets
préfets
85,229 corpus weight
- présentateur
présentateur
85,228 corpus weight
- pulmonaire
pulmonaire
85,227 corpus weight
What this shows « préfets » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préfets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around préfets (IPA \pʁe.fɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de préfet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for préfets, with forms such as "ppréfets", "prefets", and "prféets". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prêts", "prêtés", "projets", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is préfets, spelled P-R-É-F-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de préfet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how préfets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préfets, administrateurs, magistrats, policiers, gendarmes n’ont pas réussi à instaurer l’État de droit que promettait Louis XVIII, mais ils sont parvenus à ébranler sérieusement les structures traditionnelles du peuple corse, qui fut progressivement « décorsifié » sans jamais être vraiment « francisé ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréfets
- prefets
- prféets
- prréfets
- préefts
- préfest
- préfetss
- préfetts
- préffets
- préftes
- pérfets
- rpéfets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préfets - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).