préparatoires
\pʁe.pa.ʁa.twaʁ\
The verdict
“préparatoires” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,222. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,222
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de préparatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preparatoires · préparatoires · French
préparatoires · rank #15,222 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,222
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférant
Nearest frequency peer: préférant (-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 « préparatoires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- progressist…
progressistes
84,782 corpus weight
- prédateur
prédateur
84,781 corpus weight
- préférant
préférant
84,780 corpus weight
- préparatoir…
préparatoires
84,779 corpus weight
- Pétain
Pétain
84,778 corpus weight
- quid
quid
84,777 corpus weight
What this shows « préparatoires » 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 | préparatoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.pa.ʁa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #15,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « préparatoires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around préparatoires (IPA \pʁe.pa.ʁa.twaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,222 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de préparatoire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for préparatoires, with forms such as "ppréparatoires", "preparatoires", and "prpéaratoires". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "préparatoire", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is préparatoires, spelled P-R-É-P-A-R-A-T-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de préparatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how préparatoires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet ouvrage permet aux étudiants des classes préparatoires scientifiques de préparer l’épreuve de français/philo aux concours des grandes écoles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppréparatoires
- preparatoires
- prpéaratoires
- prréparatoires
- préapratoires
- prépaartoires
- préparaotires
- préparatiores
- préparatoiers
- préparatoiress
- préparatoirres
- préparatoirse
- préparatories
- préparattoires
- préparratoires
- prépartaoires
- prépparatoires
- prépraatoires
- pérparatoires
- rpéparatoires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of préparatoires - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "préparatoires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).