prévenait
\pʁe.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“prévenait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,061 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,061
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevenait · prévenait · French
prévenait · rank #61,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,061
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préludes
Nearest frequency peer: préludes (-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 « prévenait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prolongeait
prolongeait
38,943 corpus weight
- promettaient
promettaient
38,942 corpus weight
- préludes
préludes
38,941 corpus weight
- prévenait
prévenait
38,940 corpus weight
- prévisionne…
prévisionnelle
38,939 corpus weight
- psychanalyt…
psychanalytiques
38,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévenait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévenait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévenait is uncommon French at frequency #61,061 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.və.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévenir.".
prévenait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 prévenait, spelled P-R-É-V-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prévenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme nous en prévenait déjà Montaigne, «il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu’à interpreter les choses, et plus de livres sur les livres que sur tout autre subject : nous ne faisons que nous entregloser» (Essais, III, XIII).
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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