préoccupant
\pʁe.ɔ.ky.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“préoccupant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,132
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui préoccupe, qui inquiète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preoccupant · préoccupant · French
préoccupant · rank #32,132 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,132
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présenterait
Nearest frequency peer: présenterait (+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 « préoccupant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promeneurs
promeneurs
67,872 corpus weight
- promulgué
promulgué
67,871 corpus weight
- préoccupant
préoccupant
67,869 corpus weight
- présenterait
présenterait
67,868 corpus weight
- prêtresse
prêtresse
67,867 corpus weight
- puisé
puisé
67,866 corpus weight
What this shows « préoccupant » 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 | préoccupant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.ɔ.ky.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préoccupant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around préoccupant (IPA \pʁe.ɔ.ky.pɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,132 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui préoccupe, qui inquiète.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for préoccupant, with forms such as "ppréoccupant", "preoccupant", and "proéccupant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "préoccupent", "préoccupante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is préoccupant, spelled P-R-É-O-C-C-U-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui préoccupe, qui inquiète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préoccupant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette position est partagée en partie par la fondation américaine, qui considère la situation « préoccupante, car les actions qui sont menées sont en porte-à-faux avec les valeurs fondamentales du mouvement Wikimédia, telles que la transparence, la tolérance pour les opinions divergentes et la libre parole. »
C'est le fait que des Québécois choisissent l'anglais comme langue quotidienne au lieu du français qui peut être préoccupant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréoccupant
- preoccupant
- proéccupant
- prréoccupant
- précocupant
- préoccpuant
- préoccuapnt
- préoccupannt
- préoccupantt
- préoccupatn
- préoccupnat
- préoccuppant
- préocucpant
- préocupant
- péroccupant
- rpéoccupant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préoccupant - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).