prévienne
\pʁe.vjɛn\
The verdict
“prévienne” is uncommon French (frequency #54,185 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,185
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prévenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-previenne · prévienne · French
prévienne · rank #54,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,185
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proxénètes
Nearest frequency peer: proxénètes (-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 « prévienne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prostitue
prostitue
45,820 corpus weight
- protéique
protéique
45,819 corpus weight
- provocant
provocant
45,818 corpus weight
- proxénètes
proxénètes
45,817 corpus weight
- prévienne
prévienne
45,816 corpus weight
- punissant
punissant
45,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévienne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vjɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévienne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévienne is uncommon French at frequency #54,185 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.vjɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for prévienne in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prévienne, spelled P-R-É-V-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prévenir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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