prenait
\pʁə.nɛ\
The verdict
“prenait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,788
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe prendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prenait · prenait · French
prenait · rank #4,788 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,788
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placée
Nearest frequency peer: placée (-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 « prenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nés
nés
95,216 corpus weight
- pile
pile
95,215 corpus weight
- placée
placée
95,214 corpus weight
- prenait
prenait
95,213 corpus weight
- prestation
prestation
95,212 corpus weight
- profs
profs
95,211 corpus weight
What this shows « prenait » 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 | prenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around prenait (IPA \pʁə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,788 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe prendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for prenait, with forms such as "pernait", "pprenait", and "preanit". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "priait", "prenant", "prévoit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prenait, spelled P-R-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe prendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacques Bernard, soigneusement, réenfournait dans sa poches les pièces d’argent qu’il en avait tirées… puis il prenait son chapeau, dégringolait son escalier, s’enfonçait dans l'atmosphère brumeuse et glaciale, enténébrant la rue tortueuse, où se dressait son logement.
Quand Montriveau se voyait à deux chaises de cette jupe aristocratique, il se prenait à blasphémer, il maugréait Dieu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pernait
- pprenait
- preanit
- prenaitt
- prenati
- preniat
- prennait
- prneait
- prrenait
- rpenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prenait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).