prequel
\pʁi.kwɛl\
The verdict
“prequel” is uncommon French (frequency #72,634 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,634
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œuvre contant l’histoire de ce qui est arrivé avant l’histoire contée dans une autre œuvre publiée avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prequel · prequel · French
prequel · rank #72,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prendriez
Nearest frequency peer: prendriez (-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 « prequel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- posséderait
posséderait
27,371 corpus weight
- prendriez
prendriez
27,368 corpus weight
- prequel
prequel
27,367 corpus weight
- proclamatio…
proclamations
27,365 corpus weight
- procédaient
procédaient
27,364 corpus weight
- professionn…
professionnaliser
27,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prequel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prequel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.kwɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prequel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prequel is uncommon French at frequency #72,634 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.kwɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Œuvre contant l’histoire de ce qui est arrivé avant l’histoire contée dans une autre œuvre publiée avant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prequel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prequel, spelled P-R-E-Q-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Œuvre contant l’histoire de ce qui est arrivé avant l’histoire contée dans une autre œuvre publiée avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prequel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le premier prequel du film de Kubrick, Doctor Sleep, de Mike Flanagan avec Ewan McGregor sorti en 2019, a tellement floppé que Warner a renoncé à en faire un deuxième.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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