prescrit
\pʁɛs.kʁi\
The verdict
“prescrit” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,834. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,834
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obligation, chose prescrite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prescrit · prescrit · French
prescrit · rank #11,834 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,834
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH privilégiée
Nearest frequency peer: privilégiée (+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 « prescrit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pochette
pochette
88,170 corpus weight
- portugaise
portugaise
88,169 corpus weight
- prescrit
prescrit
88,167 corpus weight
- privilégiée
privilégiée
88,166 corpus weight
- prononciati…
prononciation
88,165 corpus weight
- précipitati…
précipitations
88,164 corpus weight
What this shows « prescrit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | prescrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prescrit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prescrit (IPA \pʁɛs.kʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,834 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prescrit, with forms such as "perscrit", "pprescrit", and "precsrit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "proscrit", "prescrits", "prescrite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prescrit, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Obligation, chose prescrite.
- 2Recommandation explicite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prescrit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prescrit de la conscience, devoir.
Plus son prescrit scolaire le désolait, plus son inappétence pour toute sociabilité augmentait et plus il se gavait de viennoiseries.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perscrit
- pprescrit
- precsrit
- presccrit
- prescirt
- prescritt
- prescrrit
- prescrti
- presrcit
- presscrit
- prrescrit
- prsecrit
- rpescrit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prescrit - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prescrit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).