prêtre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,215
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
prêtre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui exerce une fonction sacrée et qui préside aux cérémonies d’un culte religieux. Pronounced \pʁɛtʁ\. It ranks #3,215 in French word frequency. Often confused with prêts and propre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prêtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prêtre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,215 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prêtre, with forms such as "pprêtre", "pretre", and "prrêtre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prêts", "propre", "preuve", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 prêtre, spelled P-R-Ê-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui exerce une fonction sacrée et qui préside aux cérémonies d’un culte religieux.
- 2Celui qui, dans l’Église catholique romaine ou dans l’Église vieille--catholique, a reçu l’ordre du sacerdoce, en vertu duquel il a le pouvoir de dire la messe et d’administrer les sacrements.
- 3Ministre qui était consacré au service du tabernacle du temple, dans la loi juive.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pprêtre,pretre,prrêtre,prtêre,prêrte,prêtrre,prêttre,pêrtre,rpêtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "prêtre"
Frequency rank: #3,215 in French
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