prétendument
\pʁe.tɑ̃.dy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“prétendument” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faussement ; à tort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretendument · prétendument · French
prétendument · rank #24,341 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,341
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prémunir
Nearest frequency peer: prémunir (-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 « prétendument »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promulgation
promulgation
75,663 corpus weight
- prémunir
prémunir
75,661 corpus weight
- prétendument
prétendument
75,660 corpus weight
- prétextes
prétextes
75,659 corpus weight
- prêteur
prêteur
75,658 corpus weight
- pupilles
pupilles
75,657 corpus weight
What this shows « prétendument » 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 | prétendument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁe.tɑ̃.dy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #24,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prétendument »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around prétendument (IPA \pʁe.tɑ̃.dy.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #24,341 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faussement ; à tort.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for prétendument, with forms such as "pprétendument", "pretendument", and "prrétendument". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prétendent", "prétendaient", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prétendument, spelled P-R-É-T-E-N-D-U-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Faussement ; à tort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prétendument appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est toutefois dans les aventures politico-industrielles prétendument justifiées par l’intérêt national que l’État s’égare avec la délectation la plus grande.
A Jaffa, ce village de pêcheurs à côté de Tel-Aviv, je visitais le souk. Je me fis arnaquer en achetant des bijoux prétendument yéménites, mais je vis surtout des djellabas blanches, comme celles qu'il portait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprétendument
- pretendument
- prrétendument
- prtéendument
- préetndument
- prétednument
- prétenddument
- prétendmuent
- prétenduemnt
- prétendumennt
- prétendumentt
- prétendumetn
- prétendumment
- prétendumnet
- prétenndument
- prétenudment
- prétnedument
- préttendument
- pértendument
- rpétendument
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prétendument - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).