prévalaient
\pʁe.va.lɛ\
The verdict
“prévalaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,062 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,062
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévaloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevalaient · prévalaient · French
prévalaient · rank #91,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,062
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préparatif
Nearest frequency peer: préparatif (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prévalaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- précontraint
précontraint
8,942 corpus weight
- prédominants
prédominants
8,941 corpus weight
- préparatif
préparatif
8,940 corpus weight
- prévalaient
prévalaient
8,939 corpus weight
- pugnace
pugnace
8,937 corpus weight
- purpura
purpura
8,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévalaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévalaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.va.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévalaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévalaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,062 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.va.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévaloir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prévalaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prévalaient, spelled P-R-É-V-A-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévaloir.
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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