prestigieuse
\pʁɛs.ti.ʒjøz\
The verdict
“prestigieuse” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,764
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de prestigieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prestigieuse · prestigieuse · French
prestigieuse · rank #14,764 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,764
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postuler
Nearest frequency peer: postuler (-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 « prestigieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaisanterie
plaisanterie
85,240 corpus weight
- planifier
planifier
85,239 corpus weight
- postuler
postuler
85,238 corpus weight
- prestigieuse
prestigieuse
85,237 corpus weight
- prieur
prieur
85,236 corpus weight
- primitif
primitif
85,235 corpus weight
What this shows « prestigieuse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prestigieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.ti.ʒjøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prestigieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prestigieuse (IPA \pʁɛs.ti.ʒjøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,764 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de prestigieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestigieuse, with forms such as "perstigieuse", "pprestigieuse", and "presitgieuse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prestigieux", "prestigieuses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prestigieuse, spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de prestigieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prestigieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bar-restaurant «La coupe pleine» se tenait non loin de la rigole du village qui alimente en eau les vergers, à juste quelques encablures d’une prestigieuse auberge.
Comme dans les prépas scientifiques, il est tout à fait possible de la redoubler (on dit « cuber ») en espérant être accepté dans une école plus prestigieuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perstigieuse
- pprestigieuse
- presitgieuse
- presstigieuse
- prestgiieuse
- prestigeiuse
- prestiggieuse
- prestigiesue
- prestigieues
- prestigieusse
- prestigiuese
- prestiigeuse
- presttigieuse
- pretsigieuse
- prrestigieuse
- prsetigieuse
- rpestigieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestigieuse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).