préfigurant
\pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“préfigurant” is uncommon French (frequency #83,281 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,281
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de préfigurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefigurant · préfigurant · French
préfigurant · rank #83,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,281
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prédisposés
Nearest frequency peer: prédisposés (-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 « préfigurant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- protégeront
protégeront
16,723 corpus weight
- préciosité
préciosité
16,722 corpus weight
- prédisposés
prédisposés
16,721 corpus weight
- préfigurant
préfigurant
16,720 corpus weight
- PTR
PTR
16,718 corpus weight
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfigurant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfigurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfigurant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfigurant is uncommon French at frequency #83,281 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de préfigurer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for préfigurant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is préfigurant, spelled P-R-É-F-I-G-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de préfigurer.
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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