prémices
\pʁe.mis\
The verdict
“prémices” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,995. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l'Antiquité, premiers produits de la terre ou du bétail donnés en offrande à une divinité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-premices · prémices · French
prémices · rank #23,995 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,995
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préservée
Nearest frequency peer: préservée (+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 « prémices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- provenait
provenait
76,009 corpus weight
- provocateur
provocateur
76,008 corpus weight
- prémices
prémices
76,006 corpus weight
- préservée
préservée
76,005 corpus weight
- prévalence
prévalence
76,004 corpus weight
- punit
punit
76,003 corpus weight
What this shows « prémices » 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 | prémices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.mis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prémices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prémices (IPA \pʁe.mis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prémices, with forms such as "pprémices", "premices", and "prméices". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "premier", "premiers", "propices", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prémices, spelled P-R-É-M-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Dans l'Antiquité, premiers produits de la terre ou du bétail donnés en offrande à une divinité.
- 2Premières productions de l’esprit et des premiers mouvements du cœur.
- 3Commencement, prélude ; premières manifestations ou premières apparitions d'un processus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prémices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Athéniens offriront aux deux déesses les prémices de la récolte selon l'usage ancestral et l'ordre de l'Oracle de Delphes, […]
Les prémices de cette camaraderie eurent assez de ressemblance avec l’amitié.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprémices
- premices
- prméices
- prrémices
- préimces
- prémcies
- prémicces
- prémicess
- prémicse
- prémiecs
- prémmices
- pérmices
- rpémices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prémices - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).