prendre avantage
\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a.vɑ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“prendre avantage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer parti d'une chose, d'une situation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-avantage · prendre avantage · French
prendre avantage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre avantage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a.vɑ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre avantage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre avantage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a.vɑ̃.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tirer parti d'une chose, d'une situation.".
prendre avantage has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prendre avantage, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -A-V-A-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tirer parti d'une chose, d'une situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre avantage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que je reprochais à votre attitude, c’était précisément, par son affectation, de sembler prendre avantage sur la mienne.
M. de , la voyant là, étendue, belle, pitoyable et inquiète, le regard billant de larmes dans le halo rosé de ses paupières, en prit avantage pour lui donner une leçon.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.