préfrontal
\pʁe.fʁɔ̃.tal\
The verdict
“préfrontal” is uncommon French (frequency #76,921 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,921
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situé en avant du front.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefrontal · préfrontal · French
préfrontal · rank #76,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,921
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présidentiable
Nearest frequency peer: présidentiable (+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 « préfrontal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prudes
prudes
23,083 corpus weight
- préconisons
préconisons
23,082 corpus weight
- préfrontal
préfrontal
23,080 corpus weight
- présidentia…
présidentiable
23,079 corpus weight
- préétabli
préétabli
23,078 corpus weight
- psychothéra…
psychothérapies
23,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préfrontal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfrontal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.fʁɔ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfrontal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfrontal is uncommon French at frequency #76,921 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁe.fʁɔ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Situé en avant du front.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for préfrontal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is préfrontal, spelled P-R-É-F-R-O-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Situé en avant du front.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préfrontal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il possède des écailles dorsales et préfrontales striées.
En ce qui concerne les personnes non malades, les cortex pariétal et préfrontal latéral (qui appartiennent au réseau par défaut) sont mieux irrigués et donc activés de manière significative chez les hommes au moment de la tâche de rotation, mais pas chez les femmes.
This word in other languages
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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