prestige
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,221
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
prestige is aFrenchnoun. It means: Illusion attribuée à la magie, à un sortilège. Pronounced \pʁɛs.tiʒ\. It ranks #7,221 in French word frequency. Often confused with présage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prestige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.tiʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prestige is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛs.tiʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,221 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for prestige, with forms such as "perstige", "pprestige", and "presitge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prestige, spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Illusion attribuée à la magie, à un sortilège.
- 2Illusion qu’on sait être produite par des moyens naturels.
- 3Impression faite sur l’âme, sur l’esprit, sur l’imagination par les productions de la littérature et des arts.
- 4Autorité morale d’une personne, séduction qu’elle exerce sur l’imagination des hommes.
- 5Considération que reçoivent certaines choses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perstige,pprestige,presitge,presstige,prestgie,prestieg,prestigge,presttige,pretsige,prrestige,prsetige,rpestige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prestige
Misspelling Variants of "prestige"
Frequency rank: #7,221 in French
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