prévoie
\pʁe.vwa\
The verdict
“prévoie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,557 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,557
- 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 prévoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevoie · prévoie · French
prévoie · rank #59,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,557
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prégnante
Nearest frequency peer: prégnante (-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 « prévoie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prosaïque
prosaïque
40,447 corpus weight
- prédominent
prédominent
40,446 corpus weight
- prégnante
prégnante
40,445 corpus weight
- prévoie
prévoie
40,444 corpus weight
- prêchant
prêchant
40,443 corpus weight
- PSC
PSC
40,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévoie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévoie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévoie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévoie is uncommon French at frequency #59,557 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prévoie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prévoie, spelled P-R-É-V-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prévoir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prévoir.
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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