prétoire
\pʁe.twaʁ\
The verdict
“prétoire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,541
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où le préteur et divers autres magistrats rendaient la justice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretoire · prétoire · French
prétoire · rank #47,541 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,541
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prêchent
Nearest frequency peer: prêchent (+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 « prétoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préconçues
préconçues
52,463 corpus weight
- préfigurati…
préfiguration
52,462 corpus weight
- prétoire
prétoire
52,460 corpus weight
- prêchent
prêchent
52,459 corpus weight
- prêtées
prêtées
52,458 corpus weight
- pécuniaires
pécuniaires
52,457 corpus weight
What this shows « prétoire » 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 | prétoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prétoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prétoire (IPA \pʁe.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,541 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prétoire, with forms such as "pprétoire", "pretoire", and "prrétoire". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "prêtre", "prévoir", "prêtrise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prétoire, spelled P-R-É-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où le préteur et divers autres magistrats rendaient la justice.
- 2Dans le Bas-Empire, une des quatre grandes provinces de l’Empire romain.
- 3Enceinte d’un tribunal.
- 4Tribunal.
- 5Commission de discipline des prisons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prétoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préfet du prétoire : Celui qui commandait la garde de l’empereur.
À quelque distance du prétoire de Pilate, nous trouvâmes la piscine Probatique et le palais d’Hérode.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprétoire
- pretoire
- prrétoire
- prtéoire
- préotire
- prétiore
- prétoier
- prétoirre
- prétorie
- préttoire
- pértoire
- rpétoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prétoire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).