prestement
\pʁɛs.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“prestement” is uncommon French (frequency #60,295 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,295
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière preste, vivement, promptement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prestement · prestement · French
prestement · rank #60,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,295
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prieurés
Nearest frequency peer: prieurés (+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 « prestement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pourfendeur
pourfendeur
39,709 corpus weight
- pray
pray
39,708 corpus weight
- prestement
prestement
39,706 corpus weight
- prieurés
prieurés
39,705 corpus weight
- Prigent
Prigent
39,704 corpus weight
- prisma
prisma
39,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prestement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prestement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prestement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prestement is uncommon French at frequency #60,295 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pʁɛs.tə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière preste, vivement, promptement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prestement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prestement, spelled P-R-E-S-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière preste, vivement, promptement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prestement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les foulques regardent le chasseur, et plongent si prestement, à l’instant qu’elles aperçoivent le feu, que souvent elles échappent au plomb meurtrier,
Il n’eut que le temps de réendosser prestement sa soutane et de filer en hâte à la sacristie pour revêtir les habits sacerdotaux.
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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