prévôté

\pʁe.vo.te\

/\pʁe.vo.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“prévôté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,981
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité, fonction, juridiction de prévôt.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prevote · prévôté · French

prévôté · rank #41,981 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,981
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prévalent

Nearest frequency peer: prévalent (-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 « prévôté »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « prévôté » 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).

prévôté vs prévue
57% similar
prévôté vs private
57% similar
prévôté vs prévoyez
50% similar

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

Key facts for prévôté
PropertyValue
Headwordprévôté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁe.vo.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,981
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévôté »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prévalent » (#41,980), « prêcheur » (#41,982), « préservées » (#41,979). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prévôté » est au #41,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around prévôté (IPA \pʁe.vo.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,981 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 prévôté, with forms such as "pprévôté", "prevote", and "prrévôté". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prévue", "private", "prévoyez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prévôté, spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité, fonction, juridiction de prévôt.
  2. 2
    Territoire où s’exerçait cette juridiction.
  3. 3
    En termes militaires, corps de gendarmes chargé de la surveillance dans une grande unité mobilisée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Juge de la prévôté.
  2. La prévôté de Dordives s'étendait sur Dordives, partie de Mez-le-Maréchal, Thurelle et les Aulnois, Souppes, Besigny, la Cloisière, le Bois-d'Aix, Champs-sur-les-Bois, Bougligny, Maisoncelles, Chenou, Trémainville, Mézinville et Mondreville.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pprévôté
  • prevote
  • prrévôté
  • prvéôté
  • prévtôé
  • prévvôté
  • prévôtté
  • prévôét
  • préôvté
  • pérvôté
  • rpévôté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

pprévôté1prevote3prrévôté1prvéôté2prévtôé2prévvôté1prévôtté1prévôét2
Edit distance from "prévôté"

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 "prévôté"?
"prévôté" is spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe.vo.te\.
What does "prévôté" mean?
As a noun, "prévôté" means: Qualité, fonction, juridiction de prévôt.
What words are commonly confused with "prévôté"?
"prévôté" is commonly confused with "prévue", "private", "prévoyez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prévôté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prévôté" is \pʁe.vo.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prévôté" come from?
"prévôté" 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 "prévôté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

précité#41,976pylônes#41,986périmés#41,990raconta#41,991

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

remplisse11 variantsrigolait11 variantsopposable11 variantsrouverte11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list