prêtres
\pʁɛtʁ\
The verdict
“prêtres” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,015
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretres · prêtres · French
prêtres · rank #6,015 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,015
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférée
Nearest frequency peer: préférée (-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 « prêtres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promo
promo
93,989 corpus weight
- prophète
prophète
93,988 corpus weight
- préférée
préférée
93,987 corpus weight
- prêtres
prêtres
93,986 corpus weight
- publiquement
publiquement
93,985 corpus weight
- radical
radical
93,984 corpus weight
What this shows « prêtres » 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 | prêtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prêtres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prêtres (IPA \pʁɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,015 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de prêtre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prêtres, with forms such as "pprêtres", "pretres", and "prrêtres". 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", "propres", "progrès", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 prêtres, spelled P-R-Ê-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prêtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prêtres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chrétiens, et non les juifs qui ne voulurent point le reconnaître pour Dieu fils de Dieu, tirèrent parti de ce moyen et imitèrent en cela les prêtres de l’Inde pour théogoniser Jésus-Christ.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprêtres
- pretres
- prrêtres
- prtêres
- prêrtes
- prêters
- prêtress
- prêtrres
- prêtrse
- prêttres
- pêrtres
- rpêtres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prêtres - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prêtres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).