prescrive
\pʁɛs.kʁiv\
The verdict
“prescrive” is uncommon French (frequency #97,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prescrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prescrive · prescrive · French
prescrive · rank #97,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Presle
Nearest frequency peer: Presle (+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 « prescrive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pourchassant
pourchassant
2,702 corpus weight
- pousserai
pousserai
2,701 corpus weight
- prefer
prefer
2,699 corpus weight
- prescrive
prescrive
2,696 corpus weight
- Presle
Presle
2,695 corpus weight
- professait
professait
2,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prescrive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prescrive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kʁiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prescrive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prescrive is uncommon French at frequency #97,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛs.kʁiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prescrive has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prescrive, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prescrire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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