prendre possession

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\/ verb

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

prendre possession is aFrenchverb. It means: Entrer en jouissance d’un bien, par achat ou par héritage. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for prendre possession
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre possession
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre possession is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre possession is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre possession in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prendre possession, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Entrer en jouissance d’un bien, par achat ou par héritage.
  2. 2
    Accaparer.
  3. 3
    Venir occuper un lieu par la force ou la contrainte.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre possession"?
"prendre possession" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\.
What does "prendre possession" mean?
As a verb, "prendre possession" means: Entrer en jouissance d’un bien, par achat ou par héritage.
How do you pronounce "prendre possession"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre possession" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre possession" come from?
"prendre possession" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.