prenons
\pʁə.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“prenons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,730
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe prendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prenons · prenons · French
prenons · rank #6,730 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,730
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH posent
Nearest frequency peer: posent (-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 « prenons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pauline
Pauline
93,274 corpus weight
- PDG
PDG
93,273 corpus weight
- posent
posent
93,272 corpus weight
- prenons
prenons
93,271 corpus weight
- press
press
93,270 corpus weight
- privilège
privilège
93,269 corpus weight
What this shows « prenons » 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 | prenons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prenons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prenons (IPA \pʁə.nɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,730 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 prenons, with forms such as "pernons", "pprenons", and "prennons". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "prions", "prisons", "prévois", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prenons, spelled P-R-E-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe prendre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe prendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prenons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces pieux déchets font pourtant envier les animaux, qui ne possèdent rien, sinon leur vie, que si souvent nous leur prenons ; ils nous font aussi envier les saddhus et les anachorètes.
Prenons, par exemple, des proclamations pour lesquelles le second facteur prend des valeurs très fortement négatives, celles de Ferroul (704) à gauche ou de Guilloutet (213) à droite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pernons
- pprenons
- prennons
- prennos
- prenonns
- prenonss
- prenosn
- preonns
- prneons
- prrenons
- rpenons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prenons - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).