prévôts
\pʁe.vo\
The verdict
“prévôts” is uncommon French (frequency #89,029 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,029
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prévôt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevots · prévôts · French
prévôts · rank #89,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,029
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prétoriens
Nearest frequency peer: prétoriens (-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 « prévôts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- protonotaire
protonotaire
10,975 corpus weight
- précautionn…
précautionneusement
10,974 corpus weight
- prétoriens
prétoriens
10,973 corpus weight
- prévôts
prévôts
10,972 corpus weight
- pubienne
pubienne
10,971 corpus weight
- publicistes
publicistes
10,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévôts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévôts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.vo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévôts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévôts is uncommon French at frequency #89,029 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de prévôt.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prévôts in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 prévôts, spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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