prescription
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,759
in French word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
prescription is aFrenchnoun. It means: Protocole médicamenteux émis par un médecin en vue de guérir une affection. Pronounced \pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #8,759 in French word frequency. Often confused with prescriptions.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prescription is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for prescription, with forms such as "perscription", "pprescription", and "precsription". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prescriptions", 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 prescription, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prescription
Misspelling Variants of "prescription"
Frequency rank: #8,759 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: