préfigurent
\pʁe.fi.ɡyʁ\
The verdict
“préfigurent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,825 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,825
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préfigurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefigurent · préfigurent · French
préfigurent · rank #77,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,825
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précipitées
Nearest frequency peer: précipitées (-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 « préfigurent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prove
prove
22,179 corpus weight
- proximités
proximités
22,178 corpus weight
- précipitées
précipitées
22,177 corpus weight
- préfigurent
préfigurent
22,176 corpus weight
- prémonitoir…
prémonitoires
22,175 corpus weight
- préoccupants
préoccupants
22,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfigurent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfigurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.fi.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfigurent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfigurent is uncommon French at frequency #77,825 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.fi.ɡyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for préfigurent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is préfigurent, spelled P-R-É-F-I-G-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préfigurer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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