preparation
\ˌpɹɛp.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“preparation” is uncommon French (frequency #51,672 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,672
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preparation · preparation · French
preparation · rank #51,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,672
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PPs
Nearest frequency peer: PPs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « preparation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- porcherie
porcherie
48,332 corpus weight
- postmoderne
postmoderne
48,331 corpus weight
- PPs
PPs
48,330 corpus weight
- preparation
preparation
48,329 corpus weight
- princeps
princeps
48,328 corpus weight
- professor
professor
48,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « preparation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preparation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌpɹɛp.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « preparation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
preparation is uncommon French at frequency #51,672 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌpɹɛp.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
preparation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is preparation, spelled P-R-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Préparatif.
- 2Préparation.
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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