pretium doloris
\pʁe.sjɔm dɔ.lɔ.ʁis\
The verdict
“pretium doloris” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Préjudice lié aux souffrances morales ou physiques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pretium doloris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.sjɔm dɔ.lɔ.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pretium doloris” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pretium doloris is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.sjɔm dɔ.lɔ.ʁis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Préjudice lié aux souffrances morales ou physiques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pretium doloris in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pretium doloris, spelled P-R-E-T-I-U-M- -D-O-L-O-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préjudice lié aux souffrances morales ou physiques.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-T-I-U-M- -D-O-L-O-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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