prénom

Name: prénom, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pʁe.nɔ̃\

/\pʁe.nɔ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“prénom” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,691
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom qui, chez les anciens Romains, précédait le nom de famille et qui distinguait chaque individu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prenom · prénom · French

prénom · rank #2,691 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #2,691
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH prenant

Nearest frequency peer: prenant (-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.

officier

97,313
poche

97,312
prenant

97,311
prénom

97,310
regardé

97,309
Rock

97,308

What this shows « prénom » 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).

prénom vs prom

67% similar

prénom vs pronom

83% similar

prénom vs prévôt

50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prénom
Property	Value
Headword	prénom
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\pʁe.nɔ̃\
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#2,691
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	12
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prénom »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).prénomse place ici:

#2,691

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prenant » (#2,690), « regardé » (#2,692), « poche » (#2,689). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prénom » est au #2,691. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around prénom (IPA \pʁe.nɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,691 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for prénom, with forms such as "pprénom", "prenom", and "prnéom". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prom", "pronom", "prévôt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 prénom, spelled P-R-É-N-O-M.

Definition

1
Nom qui, chez les anciens Romains, précédait le nom de famille et qui distinguait chaque individu.
2
Nom particulier qu’on donne à un enfant, généralement à sa naissance, venant avant et distinct du nom de famille, et qui sert officiellement à distinguer les individus.
3
Préfixe du système métrique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prénom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

César portait le prénom de Caïus.
Le prénom de Cicéron était Marcus.

Synonyms

petit nom nom de baptême

This word in other languages

praenomen(English)nombre(Español)Vorname(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

pprénom
prenom
prnéom
prrénom
prénmo
prénnom
prénomm
préonm
pérnom
rpénom

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prénom - 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.

Edit distance from "prénom"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prénom"?

"prénom" is spelled P-R-É-N-O-M. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe.nɔ̃\.

What does "prénom" mean?

As a noun, "prénom" means: Nom qui, chez les anciens Romains, précédait le nom de famille et qui distinguait chaque individu.

What words are commonly confused with "prénom"?

"prénom" is commonly confused with "prom", "pronom", "prévôt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "prénom"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prénom" is \pʁe.nɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "prénom" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prénom", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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