prérogative
\pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\
The verdict
“prérogative” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,224
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Privilège, avantage attaché à une fonction ou à un état.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prerogative · prérogative · French
prérogative · rank #35,224 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,224
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prémisses
Nearest frequency peer: prémisses (-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 « prérogative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- provoquera
provoquera
64,779 corpus weight
- prémisses
prémisses
64,778 corpus weight
- prérogative
prérogative
64,777 corpus weight
- pues
pues
64,776 corpus weight
- Pégase
Pégase
64,775 corpus weight
- Péguy
Péguy
64,774 corpus weight
What this shows « prérogative » 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 | prérogative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prérogative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prérogative (IPA \pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,224 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prérogative, with forms such as "pprérogative", "prerogative", and "prréogative". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prérogatives", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prérogative, spelled P-R-É-R-O-G-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Privilège, avantage attaché à une fonction ou à un état.
- 2Pouvoir lié, de façon exclusive, à certaines fonctions ou à certaines dignités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prérogative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gouvernement est si bien exclu de toute participation à l’administration locale, qu’il n’a pas même la prérogative d’en nommer les divers fonctionnaires, […].
Maîtresse absolue la haute bureaucratie ne voulait rien céder de ses prérogatives d’autorité. Je tenais, moi, ces prérogatives pour surannées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprérogative
- prerogative
- prréogative
- prrérogative
- préorgative
- prérgoative
- préroagtive
- prérogaitve
- prérogatiev
- prérogativve
- prérogattive
- prérogatvie
- préroggative
- prérogtaive
- prérrogative
- pérrogative
- rpérogative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prérogative - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).