prévôt

\pʁe.vo\

/\pʁe.vo\/ noun

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The verdict

“prévôt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,147
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prevot · prévôt · French

prévôt · rank #26,147 · 10 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,147
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH préoccupés

Nearest frequency peer: préoccupés (-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 « prévôt »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prévôt » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prévôt vs prot
50% similar
prévôt vs prévu
67% similar
prévôt vs prévue
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prévôt
PropertyValue
Headwordprévôt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁe.vo\
Letters6
Frequency rank#26,147
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévôt »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prévôtse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « préoccupés » (#26,146), « quiétude » (#26,148), « préconisé » (#26,145). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prévôt » est au #26,147. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around prévôt (IPA \pʁe.vo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévôt, with forms such as "pprévôt", "prevot", and "prrévôt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "prot", "prévu", "prévue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 prévôt, spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance.
  2. 2
    Commandant de la gendarmerie du quartier général d’un corps d’armée.
  3. 3
    En escrime, assistant du maître d'armes.
  4. 4
    Sous-maître de gymnastique, d'escrime, de culture physique, de danse et de boxe.
  5. 5
    Directeur d’un centre de formation des apprentis (CFA) chez les compagnons du devoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prévôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le prévôt des monnaies.
  2. Le prévôt de la maréchaussée.

This word in other languages

provost(English)Propst(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pprévôt
  • prevot
  • prrévôt
  • prvéôt
  • prévtô
  • prévvôt
  • prévôtt
  • préôvt
  • pérvôt
  • rpévôt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévôt - 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.

pprévôt1prevot2prrévôt1prvéôt2prévtô2prévvôt1prévôtt1préôvt2
Edit distance from "prévôt"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prévôt"?
"prévôt" is spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe.vo\.
What does "prévôt" mean?
As a noun, "prévôt" means: Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance.
What words are commonly confused with "prévôt"?
"prévôt" is commonly confused with "prot", "prévu", "prévue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prévôt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prévôt" is \pʁe.vo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prévôt" come from?
"prévôt" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prévôt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

reeves#26,154salées#26,174soudés#26,190nectar#26,101

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

portais10 variantsretarde10 variantsperfide10 variantspartais10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list