préventions
\pʁe.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“préventions” is uncommon French (frequency #54,814 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,814
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prévention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preventions · préventions · French
préventions · rank #54,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,814
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précitées
Nearest frequency peer: précitées (-2 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 « préventions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- properties
properties
45,191 corpus weight
- provençales
provençales
45,190 corpus weight
- précitées
précitées
45,189 corpus weight
- préventions
préventions
45,187 corpus weight
- PSL
PSL
45,185 corpus weight
- puritanisme
puritanisme
45,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préventions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préventions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préventions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préventions is uncommon French at frequency #54,814 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de prévention.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for préventions, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is préventions, spelled P-R-É-V-E-N-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prévention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préventions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce prélat dont les options politiques étaient connues depuis longtemps et qui, à la suite de Léon XIII, souhaitait la formation en France d’un parti républicain modéré groupant tous les « honnêtes gens », catholiques ou non, fut accueilli avec une réserve polie par la coterie légitimiste, très influente dans le diocèse, qui le soupçonnait non sans raison…
Pendant que nous rentrions à la maison, j’aurais voulu expliquer à la jeune fille le caractère des gens que nous venions de quitter ; mais elle s’était fourré dans la tête que j’avais des préventions contre eux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).