prescription
\pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prescription” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,759 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,759
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Protocole médicamenteux émis par un médecin en vue de guérir une affection.
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 | prescription |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prescription” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prescription is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,759 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for prescription, with forms such as "perscription", "pprescription", and "precsription". 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, "prescriptions", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 prescription, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Protocole médicamenteux émis par un médecin en vue de guérir une affection.
- 2Ordre, précepte de la loi.
- 3Acquisition de la propriété d’une chose, par une possession non interrompue pendant un temps que la loi détermine; et aussi de la libération d’une dette, d’une servitude, d’une poursuite juridique, d’une peine, à la suite d’un certain laps de temps.
- 4Délai écoulé suffisamment long pour qu’aucune action ne puisse plus être entreprise.
- 5Ensemble de règles et de conseils formalisés par écrit règlementant officiellement une activité, généralement professionnelle.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perscription,pprescription,precsription,presccription,prescirption,prescripiton,prescripption,prescriptino,prescriptionn,prescriptoin,prescripttion,prescritpion,prescrpition,prescrription,presrciption,presscription,prrescription,prsecription,rpescription
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prescription - 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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Using “prescription”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “prescriptions” - see the side-by-side comparison. prescription vs prescriptions
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.