premier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#145
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
premier is anFrenchadj. It means: Adjectif numéral ordinal correspondant au nombre 1. Pronounced \pʁə.mje\. It ranks #145 in French word frequency. Often confused with prier and prêter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for premier is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje\. Corpus data places it at rank #145 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for premier, with forms such as "permier", "ppremier", and "preimer". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "prier", "prêter", "primer", 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 premier, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Adjectif numéral ordinal correspondant au nombre 1.
- 2Qui précède tous les autres par rapport au temps, au lieu, à l’ordre, à la dignité, etc.
- 3Qui passe devant ; qui vient en avant ; qui commence d’abord.
- 4Le meilleur ou le plus considérable.
- 5De première : d’une grande qualité.
- 6N’importe quel.
- 7Qui est indispensable ou qui est nécessaire avant tout.
- 8Qui avait été auparavant, qu’on avait déjà eu.
- 9Qualifie le commencement ou l’ébauche de quelque chose.
- 10Qualifie le début ou la première partie d’une période, d'un phénomène.
- 11Qualifie le rôle et la position hiérarchique à celui qui est le leader dans une fonction.
- 12Utilisé pour qualifier certains nombres entiers positifs dans la locution nominale nombre premier (laquelle possède deux définitions distinctes).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: permier,ppremier,preimer,premeir,premierr,premire,premmier,prmeier,prremier,rpemier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for premier
Misspelling Variants of "premier"
Frequency rank: #145 in French
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