prestige

\pʁɛs.tiʒ\

/\pʁɛs.tiʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“prestige” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,221
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Illusion attribuée à la magie, à un sortilège.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prestige · prestige · French

prestige · rank #7,221 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,221
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poétique

Nearest frequency peer: poétique (-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 « prestige »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « prestige » 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).

prestige vs présage
63% similar

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

Key facts for prestige
PropertyValue
Headwordprestige
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛs.tiʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,221
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prestige »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).prestigese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poétique » (#7,220), « probabilité » (#7,222), « poursuites » (#7,219). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prestige » est au #7,221. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around prestige (IPA \pʁɛs.tiʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,221 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestige, with forms such as "perstige", "pprestige", and "presitge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "présage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prestige, spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Illusion attribuée à la magie, à un sortilège.
  2. 2
    Illusion qu’on sait être produite par des moyens naturels.
  3. 3
    Impression faite sur l’âme, sur l’esprit, sur l’imagination par les productions de la littérature et des arts.
  4. 4
    Autorité morale d’une personne, séduction qu’elle exerce sur l’imagination des hommes.
  5. 5
    Considération que reçoivent certaines choses.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tous les prétendus miracles que semblent opérer les fakirs des Indes ne sont que des prestiges.
  2. Bénin s’était levé sans trop savoir comment. Il regarda devant lui, autour de lui ; mais il ne percevait plus les êtres par le regard ; il se les figurait par une sorte de prestige.

This word in other languages

prestige(English)prestigio(Español)prestígio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perstige
  • pprestige
  • presitge
  • presstige
  • prestgie
  • prestieg
  • prestigge
  • presttige
  • pretsige
  • prrestige
  • prsetige
  • rpestige

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestige - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

perstige2pprestige1presitge2presstige1prestgie2prestieg2prestigge1presttige1
Edit distance from "prestige"

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 "prestige"?
"prestige" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛs.tiʒ\.
What does "prestige" mean?
As a noun, "prestige" means: Illusion attribuée à la magie, à un sortilège.
What words are commonly confused with "prestige"?
"prestige" is commonly confused with "présage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prestige"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prestige" is \pʁɛs.tiʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prestige" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

poétique#7,220protégés#7,224racheter#7,227recruter#7,229

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

semestre12 variantssouhaitez12 variantsgénocide12 variantsambitieux12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list