prendre forme
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə fɔʁm\
The verdict
“prendre forme” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’ébaucher dans sa forme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre forme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre forme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre forme is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə fɔʁm\. 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’ébaucher dans sa forme.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prendre forme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prendre forme, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1S’ébaucher dans sa forme.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prendre forme”
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- -F-O-R-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə fɔʁm\ (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.