prémonition
\pʁe.mɔ.ni.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prémonition” is uncommon French (frequency #67,803 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,803
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forte intuition, pressentiment que quelque chose va se passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-premonition · prémonition · French
prémonition · rank #67,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,803
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévisibilité
Nearest frequency peer: prévisibilité (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prémonition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préconçue
préconçue
32,202 corpus weight
- préexistants
préexistants
32,201 corpus weight
- préfabriqué
préfabriqué
32,200 corpus weight
- prémonition
prémonition
32,198 corpus weight
- prévisibili…
prévisibilité
32,197 corpus weight
- purificateur
purificateur
32,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prémonition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prémonition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.mɔ.ni.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prémonition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prémonition is uncommon French at frequency #67,803 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.mɔ.ni.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forte intuition, pressentiment que quelque chose va se passer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prémonition in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 prémonition, spelled P-R-É-M-O-N-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Forte intuition, pressentiment que quelque chose va se passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prémonition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette prémonition que Marie semble avoir eue, et des scrupules du chrétien pratiquant que je suis et de ses exigences, j’en connais maintenant les raisons à travers ce que Balège a rapporté à Simon.
Son crédit est immense depuis qu’elle a sauvé la cathédrale de Lisieux des bombardements de 1944 – l’église seule debout parmi les ruines, comme une prémonition de la bombe à neutrons, laquelle eût également épargné les maisons aux alentours, mais, pour l’époque, ce n’est déjà pas si mal.
This word in other languages
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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