prévalant
\pʁe.va.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“prévalant” is uncommon French (frequency #58,185 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,185
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de prévaloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevalant · prévalant · French
prévalant · rank #58,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,185
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prélèvent
Nearest frequency peer: prélèvent (-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 « prévalant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédisait
prédisait
41,818 corpus weight
- prélèvent
prélèvent
41,817 corpus weight
- prévalant
prévalant
41,816 corpus weight
- psychodrame
psychodrame
41,815 corpus weight
- puantes
puantes
41,814 corpus weight
- punto
punto
41,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévalant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévalant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévalant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévalant is uncommon French at frequency #58,185 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.va.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de prévaloir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prévalant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 prévalant, spelled P-R-É-V-A-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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