préfixes
\pʁe.fiks\
The verdict
“préfixes” is uncommon French (frequency #64,714 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,714
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de préfix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefixes · préfixes · French
préfixes · rank #64,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,714
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prédictif
Nearest frequency peer: prédictif (-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 « préfixes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- proposerais
proposerais
35,289 corpus weight
- prédictif
prédictif
35,288 corpus weight
- préfixes
préfixes
35,287 corpus weight
- présenterai…
présenteraient
35,286 corpus weight
- prétende
prétende
35,285 corpus weight
- puisés
puisés
35,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfixes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfixes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.fiks\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfixes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfixes is uncommon French at frequency #64,714 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁe.fiks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de préfix.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for préfixes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is préfixes, spelled P-R-É-F-I-X-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de préfix.
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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