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préfix

French, adjective/pʁe.fiks/

préfix is spelled P-R-É-F-I-X (6 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préfix is a French adjective meaning “preset, predetermined” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est déterminé, fixé d’avance. Ne s’emploie guère que dans les locutions suivantes ”.

What does préfix mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    preset, predetermined

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est déterminé, fixé d’avance. Ne s’emploie guère que dans les locutions suivantes : 2. Qualifie le douaire qui consiste en une certaine somme déterminée par les conventions matrimoniales.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of préfix

  • préfixe feminine
  • préfixes feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce préfix?

  • /pʁe.fiks/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is préfix in French?

préfix appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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