prélude
\pʁe.lyd\
The verdict
“prélude” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui précède quelque chose et qui lui sert comme d’entrée et de préparation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prelude · prélude · French
prélude · rank #18,570 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,570
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préhistoire
Nearest frequency peer: préhistoire (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prélude »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pronostics
pronostics
81,434 corpus weight
- prospectus
prospectus
81,433 corpus weight
- préhistoire
préhistoire
81,432 corpus weight
- prélude
prélude
81,431 corpus weight
- prévaloir
prévaloir
81,430 corpus weight
- pédophiles
pédophiles
81,429 corpus weight
What this shows « prélude » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prélude »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prélude (IPA \pʁe.lyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,570 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prélude, with forms such as "pprélude", "prelude", and "prléude". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prude", "preuve", "prévue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prélude, spelled P-R-É-L-U-D-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prélude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant cette même journée du 10, qui était le prélude de la grande bataille du lendemain, l’ennemi avait continué ses attaques sur le 21ᵉ corps.
S’attendant à la paire de claques, prélude de la raclée, l’avant-bras déjà presque levé pour la parade habituelle, Camus en demeura un instant muet de stupéfaction.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprélude
- prelude
- prléude
- prrélude
- préldue
- préllude
- préludde
- prélued
- préulde
- pérlude
- rpélude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prélude - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).