prennent
\pʁɛn\
The verdict
“prennent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe prendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prennent · prennent · French
prennent · rank #1,570 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,570
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH offrir
Nearest frequency peer: offrir (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prennent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malheureuse…
malheureusement
98,434 corpus weight
- mardi
mardi
98,433 corpus weight
- offrir
offrir
98,432 corpus weight
- prennent
prennent
98,431 corpus weight
- religieux
religieux
98,430 corpus weight
- Rome
Rome
98,429 corpus weight
What this shows « prennent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prennent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prennent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prennent (IPA \pʁɛn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,570 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prennent, with forms such as "pernnent", "pprennent", and "prenennt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "présent", "prêtent", "prennes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prennent, spelled P-R-E-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe prendre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif du verbe prendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prennent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le coupable ne paie pas immédiatement, les bandiers le « pignorent », c’est-à-dire qu’ils prennent en gage soit quelques têtes, soit une pièce de son habillement que le coupable retrouve lorsqu’il a acquitté l’amende due.
Mais cette première comparaison tout à l’avantage de George Sand avorte et les pages 9 et 10 sont rayées. Elles se voient remplacées par deux pages issues d’un contexte inconnu numérotées I et II puis surnumérotées 10 et 11 qui s’en prennent avec plus d’énergie que le passage précédent biffé à la laideur dans l’œuvre de Hugo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pernnent
- pprennent
- prenennt
- prenent
- prennennt
- prennentt
- prennetn
- prennnet
- prnenent
- prrennent
- rpennent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prennent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prennent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).