prends
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,123
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
prends is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prendre. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃\. It ranks #1,123 in French word frequency. Often confused with près and prêts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prends |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prends is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,123 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for prends, with forms such as "pernds", "pprends", and "predns". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "près", "prêts", "press", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 prends, spelled P-R-E-N-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prendre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de prendre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pernds,pprends,predns,prendds,prendss,prennds,prensd,prneds,prrends,rpends
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prends
Misspelling Variants of "prends"
Frequency rank: #1,123 in French
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