prérogative

\pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\

/\pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « prérogative » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prérogative vs prérogatives
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prérogative
PropertyValue
Headwordprérogative
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\
Letters11
Frequency rank#35,224
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prérogative »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).prérogativese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prémisses » (#35,223), « pues » (#35,225), « provoquera » (#35,222). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prérogative » est au #35,224. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Privilège, avantage attaché à une fonction ou à un état.
  2. 2
    Pouvoir lié, de façon exclusive, à certaines fonctions ou à certaines dignités.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prérogative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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, […].
  2. 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.

pprérogative1prerogative1prréogative2prrérogative1préorgative2prérgoative2préroagtive2prérogaitve2
Edit distance from "prérogative"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prérogative"?
"prérogative" is spelled P-R-É-R-O-G-A-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\.
What does "prérogative" mean?
As a noun, "prérogative" means: Privilège, avantage attaché à une fonction ou à un état.
What words are commonly confused with "prérogative"?
"prérogative" is commonly confused with "prérogatives". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prérogative"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prérogative" is \pʁe.ʁɔ.ɡa.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prérogative" come from?
"prérogative" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prérogative", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list