préliminaire
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,911
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
préliminaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui précède, qui prépare l’objet principal. Pronounced \pʁe.li.mi.nɛʁ\. It ranks #8,911 in French word frequency. Often confused with préliminaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préliminaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pʁe.li.mi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for préliminaire is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.li.mi.nɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,911 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for préliminaire, with forms such as "ppréliminaire", "preliminaire", and "prléiminaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "préliminaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is préliminaire, spelled P-R-É-L-I-M-I-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui précède, qui prépare l’objet principal.
- 2Qualifie, en matière de négociation, les articles généraux qui doivent être réglés avant que l’on entre dans la discussion des intérêts particuliers des puissances contractantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppréliminaire,preliminaire,prléiminaire,prréliminaire,préilminaire,préliimnaire,prélimianire,préliminaier,préliminairre,préliminarie,préliminiare,préliminnaire,prélimminaire,prélimniaire,prélliminaire,prélmiinaire,pérliminaire,rpéliminaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "préliminaire"
Frequency rank: #8,911 in French
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