preserve
\pɹəˈzɜːv\
The verdict
“preserve” is uncommon French (frequency #84,187 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,187
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confiture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preserve · preserve · French
preserve · rank #84,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,187
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH practical
Nearest frequency peer: practical (-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 « preserve »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poularde
poularde
15,817 corpus weight
- practical
practical
15,815 corpus weight
- preserve
preserve
15,814 corpus weight
- preste
preste
15,813 corpus weight
- proa
proa
15,811 corpus weight
- probably
probably
15,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « preserve » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preserve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɹəˈzɜːv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « preserve » en français
Rare enough to double-check
preserve is uncommon French at frequency #84,187 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɹəˈzɜːv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
preserve doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 preserve, spelled P-R-E-S-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Confiture.
- 2Réserve pour la conservation d'animaux, d'écosytèmes, etc. ; réserve naturelle.
- 3(game preserve) Chasse gardée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how preserve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We enjoyed eating strawberry preserves on our toast.
Visitors to the nature preserve are forbidden to litter, to let their dogs off the leash, or to harvest plants and berries from the woods.
Synonyms
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).