prescrivait
\pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“prescrivait” is uncommon French (frequency #99,503 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,503
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prescrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prescrivait · prescrivait · French
prescrivait · rank #99,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,503
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prendrions
Nearest frequency peer: prendrions (-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 « prescrivait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PPF
PPF
502 corpus weight
- Praxitèle
Praxitèle
501 corpus weight
- prendrions
prendrions
499 corpus weight
- prescrivait
prescrivait
498 corpus weight
- procurerait
procurerait
496 corpus weight
- procureront
procureront
495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prescrivait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prescrivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prescrivait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prescrivait is uncommon French at frequency #99,503 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prescrire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prescrivait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prescrivait, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait 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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