prévenance
\pʁɛv.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“prévenance” is uncommon French (frequency #75,119 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,119
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière obligeante de prévenir, de devancer les désirs de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevenance · prévenance · French
prévenance · rank #75,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,119
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prétendantes
Nearest frequency peer: prétendantes (-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 « prévenance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préconisati…
préconisation
24,884 corpus weight
- prétendantes
prétendantes
24,883 corpus weight
- prévenance
prévenance
24,882 corpus weight
- publiaient
publiaient
24,881 corpus weight
- puceron
puceron
24,880 corpus weight
- pullule
pullule
24,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévenance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévenance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛv.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévenance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévenance is uncommon French at frequency #75,119 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɛv.nɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manière obligeante de prévenir, de devancer les désirs de quelqu’un.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prévenance, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prévenance, spelled P-R-É-V-E-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Manière obligeante de prévenir, de devancer les désirs de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prévenance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fait, je souhaite seulement patrouiller avec les cops de New York, suivre les policiers en mission, mais on m’accordera bien davantage : outre une prévenance de tous les instants, la visite des différents services de la Police, même les plus impénétrables, et toutes les informations concernant le fonctionnement de cette institution légendaire.
Julien ne répondit pas un seul mot aux prévenances, dont pendant tout le reste de la promenade il fut l’objet.
This word in other languages
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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