préparer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,715
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
préparer is aFrenchverb. It means: Apprêter, disposer mettre une chose dans l’état convenable à l’usage auquel on la destine. Pronounced \pʁe.pa.ʁe\. It ranks #1,715 in French word frequency. Often confused with préparez and préparés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préparer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.pa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for préparer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.pa.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,715 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for préparer, with forms such as "ppréparer", "preparer", and "prpéarer". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "préparez", "préparés", "propager", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is préparer, spelled P-R-É-P-A-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apprêter, disposer mettre une chose dans l’état convenable à l’usage auquel on la destine.
- 2Soumettre un malade à un certain régime en vue d’une opération chirurgicale ou d’un traitement.
- 3Installer, mettre en place, les causes qui produiront des effets ultérieurs.
- 4Méditer, disposer dans sa mémoire après réflexion.
- 5Faire précéder une chose de quelques précautions pour en assurer l’effet.
- 6Mettre dans une disposition propre à atteindre un but qu’on se propose, en parlant de personnes.
- 7Parler à quelqu’un avec ménagement pour le disposer à apprendre une nouvelle pénible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppréparer,preparer,prpéarer,prréparer,préaprer,prépaerr,préparerr,préparre,préparrer,prépparer,prépraer,pérparer,rpéparer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for préparer
Misspelling Variants of "préparer"
Frequency rank: #1,715 in French
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