préventivement
\pʁe.vɑ̃.tiv.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“préventivement” is uncommon French (frequency #51,066 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière préventive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preventivement · préventivement · French
préventivement · rank #51,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,066
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préfaces
Nearest frequency peer: préfaces (-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 « préventivement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- promenez
promenez
48,938 corpus weight
- précarisati…
précarisation
48,937 corpus weight
- préfaces
préfaces
48,936 corpus weight
- préventivem…
préventivement
48,935 corpus weight
- pédicure
pédicure
48,934 corpus weight
- périlleuses
périlleuses
48,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « préventivement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préventivement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vɑ̃.tiv.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #51,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préventivement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préventivement is uncommon French at frequency #51,066 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pʁe.vɑ̃.tiv.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for préventivement in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is préventivement, spelled P-R-É-V-E-N-T-I-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière préventive.
- 2En qualité de prévenu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préventivement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Informé préventivement de ce qui allait arriver.
Redoutant une concurrence face à laquelle il ne peut lutter à armes égales faute de moyens, le Crédit foncier préfère entamer préventivement des négociations avec le Crédit national.
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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