preste
\pʁɛst\
The verdict
“preste” is uncommon French (frequency #84,188 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,188
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est prompt, leste, agile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preste · preste · French
preste · rank #84,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,188
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH preserve
Nearest frequency peer: preserve (-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 « preste »
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 « preste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛst\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « preste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
preste is uncommon French at frequency #84,188 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for preste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 preste, spelled P-R-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est prompt, leste, agile.
- 2Qui est rapide en parlant des choses qui dépendent de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how preste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme preste et habile.
Il a la main preste.
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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