prêt à usage
The verdict
“prêt à usage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Contrat par lequel un bien, ou meuble (véhicule, matériel agricole, matériel de bricolage, appareil ménager, etc,...) ou immeuble (habitation, terrain agricole, aire de sport, aire de loisirs, etc,...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prêt à usage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prêt à usage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prêt à usage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contrat par lequel un bien, ou meuble (véhicule, matériel agricole, matériel de bricolage, appareil ménager, etc,...) ou immeuble (habitation, terrain agricole, aire de sport, aire de loisirs, etc,...".
No misspelling variants are generated for prêt à usage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prêt à usage, spelled P-R-Ê-T- -À- -U-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Contrat par lequel un bien, ou meuble (véhicule, matériel agricole, matériel de bricolage, appareil ménager, etc,...) ou immeuble (habitation, terrain agricole, aire de sport, aire de loisirs, etc,...), est prêté gratuitement à un emprunteur, à la charge de le restituer en nature à une date convenue.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-Ê-T- -À- -U-S-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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