prévalent
\pʁe.va.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“prévalent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Répandu, prédominant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevalent · prévalent · French
prévalent · rank #41,980 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,980
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préservées
Nearest frequency peer: préservées (-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 « prévalent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- précité
précité
58,025 corpus weight
- prédominante
prédominante
58,024 corpus weight
- préservées
préservées
58,022 corpus weight
- prévalent
prévalent
58,021 corpus weight
- prévôté
prévôté
58,020 corpus weight
- prêcheur
prêcheur
58,019 corpus weight
What this shows « prévalent » 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 | prévalent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévalent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around prévalent (IPA \pʁe.va.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévalent, with forms such as "pprévalent", "prevalent", and "prrévalent". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "prévient", "prévoient", "préparent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prévalent, spelled P-R-É-V-A-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Répandu, prédominant.
- 2Dominant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prévalent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ici 2025, les maladies prévalentes seront le cancer, l’Alzheimer, les affections cardiovasculaires et le diabète.
La science joue dans le monde un rôle de plus en plus prévalent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprévalent
- prevalent
- prrévalent
- prvéalent
- préavlent
- prévaelnt
- prévalennt
- prévalentt
- prévaletn
- prévallent
- prévalnet
- prévlaent
- prévvalent
- pérvalent
- rpévalent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévalent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prévalent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).