prévenons
\pʁe.və.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“prévenons” is uncommon French (frequency #95,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,198
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de prévenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevenons · prévenons · French
prévenons · rank #95,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,198
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présaison
Nearest frequency peer: présaison (-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 « prévenons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- présaison
présaison
4,804 corpus weight
- prévenons
prévenons
4,803 corpus weight
- pseudomonas
pseudomonas
4,802 corpus weight
- psychomoteur
psychomoteur
4,801 corpus weight
- Puiseux
Puiseux
4,799 corpus weight
- puri
puri
4,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévenons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévenons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.və.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévenons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévenons is uncommon French at frequency #95,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.və.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prévenons, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prévenons, spelled P-R-É-V-E-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de prévenir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de prévenir.
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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