prescris
\pʁɛs.kʁi\
The verdict
“prescris” is uncommon French (frequency #70,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prescrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prescris · prescris · French
prescris · rank #70,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,964
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Presles
Nearest frequency peer: Presles (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prescris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pradier
pradier
29,041 corpus weight
- prato
prato
29,040 corpus weight
- prescris
prescris
29,037 corpus weight
- Presles
Presles
29,036 corpus weight
- primavera
primavera
29,035 corpus weight
- Prisca
Prisca
29,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prescris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prescris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prescris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prescris is uncommon French at frequency #70,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛs.kʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prescris doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prescris, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prescrire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prescrire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de 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.
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