prévaricateur
\pʁe.va.ʁi.ka.tœʁ\
The verdict
“prévaricateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prévarique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevaricateur · prévaricateur · French
prévaricateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévaricateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.va.ʁi.ka.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
prévaricateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.va.ʁi.ka.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui prévarique.".
prévaricateur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prévaricateur, spelled P-R-É-V-A-R-I-C-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prévarique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prévaricateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adam premier prevaricateur avoit livre toute sa posterite a cette damnation de mort, […]
[S]i nous substituons l’irascibilité de l’amour-propre à l’énergie du patriotisme, les méfiances à la discussion, de petites passions haineuses, des réminiscences régulières à des débats réguliers, et vraiment faits pour nous éclairer, nous ne sommes que d’égoïstes prévaricateurs.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.