prep
\ˈprɛp\
The verdict
“prep” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,867
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prep · prep · French
prep · rank #49,867 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,867
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH precision
Nearest frequency peer: precision (-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 « prep »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- potache
potache
50,137 corpus weight
- pourchasser
pourchasser
50,136 corpus weight
- precision
precision
50,135 corpus weight
- prep
prep
50,134 corpus weight
- produisons
produisons
50,132 corpus weight
- professorat
professorat
50,131 corpus weight
What this shows « prep » 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 | prep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈprɛp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prep »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around prep (IPA \ˈprɛp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,867 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Préposition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for prep, with forms such as "perp", "pprep", and "prepp". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "pue", "pri", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prep, spelled P-R-E-P.
Definition
- 1Préposition.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perp
- pprep
- prepp
- prpe
- prrep
- rpep
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prep - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).