prescrire

\pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\

/\pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“prescrire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,463
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordonner, recommander ou marquer précisément ce qu’on veut qui soit fait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prescrire · prescrire · French

prescrire · rank #15,463 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,463
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pouvions

Nearest frequency peer: pouvions (-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 « prescrire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prescrire » 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).

prescrire vs prescrit
78% similar
prescrire vs prescrits
78% similar
prescrire vs prescrite
89% similar

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

Key facts for prescrire
PropertyValue
Headwordprescrire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,463
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prescrire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).prescrirese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pouvions » (#15,462), « poney » (#15,461), « princesses » (#15,465). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prescrire » est au #15,463. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around prescrire (IPA \pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,463 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prescrire, with forms such as "perscrire", "pprescrire", and "precsrire". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "prescrit", "prescrits", "prescrite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prescrire, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ordonner, recommander ou marquer précisément ce qu’on veut qui soit fait.
  2. 2
    Ordonner la prise de remèdes.
  3. 3
    Acquérir par prescription.
  4. 4
    Se perdre par prescription.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une ordonnance de Charles IV, dit le Bel, de novembre 1323, concernant le Trésor, prescrit qu’aucun clerc ou receveur ne soit employé au Trésor s'il n'est pas Français.
  2. Comme l'étape à parcourir était assez longue, le commandant de cette division avait prescrit aux troupes cantonnées à Novion-Porcien et Provizy, sous les ordres du colonel Gündell, de se mettre en route de manière à atteindre Tagnon vers midi, de s'y arrêter et d'y faire la soupe, […].

This word in other languages

prescribe(English)trazar(Español)vorschreiben(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perscrire
  • pprescrire
  • precsrire
  • presccrire
  • prescirre
  • prescrier
  • prescrirre
  • prescrrie
  • prescrrire
  • presrcire
  • presscrire
  • prrescrire
  • prsecrire
  • rpescrire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prescrire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

perscrire2pprescrire1precsrire2presccrire1prescirre2prescrier2prescrirre1prescrrie2
Edit distance from "prescrire"

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 "prescrire"?
"prescrire" is spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\.
What does "prescrire" mean?
As a verb, "prescrire" means: Ordonner, recommander ou marquer précisément ce qu’on veut qui soit fait.
What words are commonly confused with "prescrire"?
"prescrire" is commonly confused with "prescrit", "prescrits", "prescrite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prescrire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prescrire" is \pʁɛs.kʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prescrire" come from?
"prescrire" 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 "prescrire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prévoyant#15,470paralysie#15,455recharger#15,480reflètent#15,483

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

professeure14 variantsqualifiées14 variantsretombées14 variantsreviendrai14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list