prélude
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,570
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
prélude is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui précède quelque chose et qui lui sert comme d’entrée et de préparation. Pronounced \pʁe.lyd\. Often confused with prude and preuve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prélude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.lyd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prélude is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.lyd\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,570 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for prélude, with forms such as "pprélude", "prelude", and "prléude". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prude", "preuve", "prévue", and more, 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 prélude, spelled P-R-É-L-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui précède quelque chose et qui lui sert comme d’entrée et de préparation.
- 2Ce qu’on improvise sur un instrument pour se mettre dans le ton.
- 3Certaines compositions musicales qui forment le début d’une œuvre.
- 4Pièces qui constituent à elles seules un tout.
- 5Verrouillage de l'accès à une ressource critique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pprélude,prelude,prléude,prrélude,préldue,préllude,préludde,prélued,préulde,pérlude,rpélude
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prélude
Misspelling Variants of "prélude"
Frequency rank: #18,570 in French
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