prendre du grade
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\
The verdict
“prendre du grade” 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) - S’élever à un grade supérieur, dans sa condition, ses fonctions, son emploi, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-du-grade · prendre du grade · French
prendre du grade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre du grade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre du grade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dy ɡʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.