prendre du grade
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\
The verdict
“prendre du grade” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’élever à un grade supérieur, dans sa condition, ses fonctions, son emploi, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre du grade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre du grade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre du grade is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "S’élever à un grade supérieur, dans sa condition, ses fonctions, son emploi, etc.".
prendre du grade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 prendre du grade, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-U- -G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1S’élever à un grade supérieur, dans sa condition, ses fonctions, son emploi, etc.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-U- -G-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.