prévoir
\pʁe.vwaʁ\
The verdict
“prévoir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,703. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,703
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juger par avance qu’une chose doit arriver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevoir · prévoir · French
prévoir · rank #4,703 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,703
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH procédures
Nearest frequency peer: procédures (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pires
pires
95,301 corpus weight
- polémique
polémique
95,300 corpus weight
- procédures
procédures
95,299 corpus weight
- prévoir
prévoir
95,298 corpus weight
- Pyrénées
Pyrénées
95,297 corpus weight
- qualificati…
qualification
95,296 corpus weight
What this shows « prévoir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prévoir (IPA \pʁe.vwaʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,703 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévoir, with forms such as "pprévoir", "prevoir", and "prrévoir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "prévôt", "prévoit", "prévois", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prévoir, spelled P-R-É-V-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Juger par avance qu’une chose doit arriver.
- 2Prendre des précautions, des mesures d’avance ; faire les préparatifs nécessaires.
- 3Contenir une disposition particulière, en parlant d'un texte juridique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prévoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fragile édifice du crédit, – qui avait des proportions que nul n’avait prévues, et qui avait tenu dans une dépendance réciproque des centaines de millions d’hommes, sans que personne s’en rendît clairement compte, – s’effondra dans la panique.
Parce que l’astronomie parvenait à calculer les tables de la lune, on a cru que le but de toute science était de prévoir avec exactitude l’avenir; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprévoir
- prevoir
- prrévoir
- prvéoir
- préovir
- prévior
- prévoirr
- prévori
- prévvoir
- pérvoir
- rpévoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévoir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prévoir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).