préoccupent
\pʁe.ɔ.kyp\
The verdict
“préoccupent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,835
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préoccuper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preoccupent · préoccupent · French
préoccupent · rank #26,835 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,835
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préjudiciable
Nearest frequency peer: préjudiciable (-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 « préoccupent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pollutions
pollutions
73,170 corpus weight
- profusion
profusion
73,169 corpus weight
- préjudiciab…
préjudiciable
73,167 corpus weight
- préoccupent
préoccupent
73,166 corpus weight
- prévisibles
prévisibles
73,165 corpus weight
- raides
raides
73,163 corpus weight
What this shows « préoccupent » 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 | préoccupent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.ɔ.kyp\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préoccupent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around préoccupent (IPA \pʁe.ɔ.kyp\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,835 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for préoccupent, with forms such as "ppréoccupent", "preoccupent", and "proéccupent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "préoccuper", "préoccupés", "préoccupé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is préoccupent, spelled P-R-É-O-C-C-U-P-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de préoccuper.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de préoccuper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préoccupent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’on étudie les prédicateurs et les homélistes contemporains et on verra que ce dont ils se préoccupent le moins c’est de traduire littéralement le texte original de la Sainte Écriture.
Il faudrait que les pouvoirs publics, comme la CNCL dont c’est le rôle, se préoccupent un peu plus du service public et des missions qui lui reviennent, en les reprécisant, plutôt que de s’acharner à vouloir interdire au secteur privé de la télévision de vivre !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréoccupent
- preoccupent
- proéccupent
- prréoccupent
- précocupent
- préoccpuent
- préoccuepnt
- préoccupennt
- préoccupentt
- préoccupetn
- préoccupnet
- préoccuppent
- préocucpent
- préocupent
- péroccupent
- rpéoccupent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préoccupent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).