prestataire

\pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\

/\pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“prestataire” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,375
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fournisseur ou fournisseuse d’une prestation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prestataire · prestataire · French

prestataire · rank #19,375 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #19,375
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH portage

Nearest frequency peer: portage (-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 « prestataire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prestataire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prestataire vs prestataires
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prestataire
PropertyValue
Headwordprestataire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#19,375
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prestataire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).prestatairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « portage » (#19,374), « produisait » (#19,376), « polyvalent » (#19,373). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prestataire » est au #19,375. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around prestataire (IPA \pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,375 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestataire, with forms such as "perstataire", "pprestataire", and "presattaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prestataires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 prestataire, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-T-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fournisseur ou fournisseuse d’une prestation.
  2. 2
    Bénéficiaire d’une prestation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prestataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le prestataire doit exécuter une mission bien délimitée.
  2. Les devis des prestataires — ERDF, l’électricien de la commune et un enseigniste — étant déjà prêts, Valérie Hancy a pu commander l’enseigne très rapidement après l'obtention des fonds.

This word in other languages

provider(English)Dienstleister(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perstataire
  • pprestataire
  • presattaire
  • presstataire
  • prestaatire
  • prestataier
  • prestatairre
  • prestatarie
  • prestatiare
  • prestattaire
  • presttaaire
  • presttataire
  • pretsataire
  • prrestataire
  • prsetataire
  • rpestataire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestataire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

perstataire2pprestataire1presattaire2presstataire1prestaatire2prestataier2prestatairre1prestatarie2
Edit distance from "prestataire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prestataire"?
"prestataire" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-T-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\.
What does "prestataire" mean?
As a noun, "prestataire" means: Fournisseur ou fournisseuse d’une prestation.
What words are commonly confused with "prestataire"?
"prestataire" is commonly confused with "prestataires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prestataire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prestataire" is \pʁɛs.ta.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prestataire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prestataire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mentionnant#19,342intérimaire#19,322immortalité#19,315géologiques#19,308

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

polyvalent16 variantsstructurel16 variantsatlantiques16 variantsexonération16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list