prétende
\pʁe.tɑ̃d\
The verdict
“prétende” is uncommon French (frequency #64,716 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prétendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretende · prétende · French
prétende · rank #64,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,716
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présenteraient
Nearest frequency peer: présenteraient (-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 « prétende »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédictif
prédictif
35,288 corpus weight
- préfixes
préfixes
35,287 corpus weight
- présenterai…
présenteraient
35,286 corpus weight
- prétende
prétende
35,285 corpus weight
- puisés
puisés
35,284 corpus weight
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatre
35,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prétende » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prétende |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.tɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prétende » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prétende is uncommon French at frequency #64,716 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.tɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for prétende in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prétende, spelled P-R-É-T-E-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prétendre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prétendre.
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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