préjugé
French, noun
préjugé is spelled P-R-É-J-U-G-É (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préjugé is a French masculine noun meaning “a prejudice, a bias” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of préjuger. With an accent, préjuge is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui a été jugé auparavant dans un cas semblable ou analogue”.
What does préjugé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea prejudice, a bias
verb
- 1
past participle of préjuger
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui a été jugé auparavant dans un cas semblable ou analogue. 2. Jugement porté par avance, d’une opinion qu’on se fait d’avance, d’après les circonstances les apparences favorables ou contraires. 3. Opinion généralement reçue et adoptée sans examen. 4. Opinion ou jugement, souvent négatif, adopté sans examen critique, visant généralement un groupe ou ses membres, et pouvant conduire à des comportements discriminatoires.
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 préjugé
- préjugés plural
- préjugée feminine
- préjugées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to préjugé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is préjugé in French?
préjugé appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).