pretendre
\pɾe.ten.ˈðɾe\
The verdict
“pretendre” is uncommon French (frequency #90,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aspirer à, prétendre à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretendre · pretendre · French
pretendre · rank #90,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,059
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primevère
Nearest frequency peer: primevère (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pretendre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pourvois
pourvois
9,947 corpus weight
- prenable
prenable
9,945 corpus weight
- pretendre
pretendre
9,942 corpus weight
- primevère
primevère
9,941 corpus weight
- prodigieuses
prodigieuses
9,939 corpus weight
- professiona…
professionalisme
9,938 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pretendre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pretendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɾe.ten.ˈðɾe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pretendre” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
pretendre is uncommon French at frequency #90,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɾe.ten.ˈðɾe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aspirer à, prétendre à.".
pretendre has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is pretendre, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Aspirer à, prétendre à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pretendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pretendiá qu’èra capable de se’n sortir sol.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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