prenable
\pʁə.nabl\
The verdict
“prenable” is uncommon French (frequency #90,056 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,056
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être pris, qui n’est pas si fort qu’il ne puisse être pris, en parlant proprement des villes et des places fortifiées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prenable · prenable · French
prenable · rank #90,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,056
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourvois
Nearest frequency peer: pourvois (-2 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 « prenable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- potences
potences
9,949 corpus weight
- pouding
pouding
9,948 corpus weight
- pourvois
pourvois
9,947 corpus weight
- prenable
prenable
9,945 corpus weight
- pretendre
pretendre
9,942 corpus weight
- primevère
primevère
9,941 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prenable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prenable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁə.nabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prenable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prenable is uncommon French at frequency #90,056 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁə.nabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for prenable in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prenable, spelled P-R-E-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être pris, qui n’est pas si fort qu’il ne puisse être pris, en parlant proprement des villes et des places fortifiées.
- 2Qui peut être séduit, être corrompu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prenable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette place est prenable.
Cette ville n’était prenable que par tel côté.
Antonyms
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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