prétendons
\pʁe.tɑ̃.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“prétendons” is uncommon French (frequency #67,029 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,029
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de prétendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretendons · prétendons · French
prétendons · rank #67,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,029
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psst
Nearest frequency peer: psst (+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 « prétendons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédestinat…
prédestination
32,976 corpus weight
- prédisant
prédisant
32,975 corpus weight
- prétendons
prétendons
32,972 corpus weight
- psst
psst
32,971 corpus weight
- psychotrope
psychotrope
32,970 corpus weight
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
32,968 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prétendons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prétendons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.tɑ̃.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prétendons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prétendons is uncommon French at frequency #67,029 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.tɑ̃.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prétendons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prétendons, spelled P-R-É-T-E-N-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de prétendre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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