prélasser
\pʁe.la.se\
The verdict
“prélasser” is uncommon French (frequency #72,646 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,646
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affecter un air important.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prelasser · prélasser · French
prélasser · rank #72,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,646
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prédite
Nearest frequency peer: prédite (-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 « prélasser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- provoquaient
provoquaient
27,358 corpus weight
- prunus
prunus
27,357 corpus weight
- prédite
prédite
27,356 corpus weight
- prélasser
prélasser
27,355 corpus weight
- prêchait
prêchait
27,354 corpus weight
- psychiqueme…
psychiquement
27,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prélasser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prélasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.la.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prélasser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prélasser is uncommon French at frequency #72,646 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.la.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prélasser has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prélasser, spelled P-R-É-L-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Affecter un air important.
- 2Prendre toutes ses aises, se laisser aller nonchalamment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prélasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; Dantan, l'artiste chaud et à l'active intelligence, escalada le ciel comme un nouveau Titan, pénétra de vive force dans le conseil des Dieux, alla saisir madame Sculpture qui se prélassait pompeusement entre Minerve et Jupiter, et malgré les efforts du blond Apollon et du troupeau des Muses éplorées, l'entraîna avec lui sur la terre.
Coiffée d'un chapeau très-élevé au sommet duquel une fleur se balançait ridiculement, Domna Ossipovna, les jambes croisées, se prélassait avec un orgueil indescriptible sur les coussins de la voiture et jetait aux piétons les regards les plus dédaigneux.
Synonyms
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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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