prévoyaient
\pʁe.vwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“prévoyaient” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,995. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevoyaient · prévoyaient · French
prévoyaient · rank #38,995 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,995
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prérequis
Nearest frequency peer: prérequis (-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 « prévoyaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proteger
proteger
61,011 corpus weight
- précisés
précisés
61,010 corpus weight
- préconisée
préconisée
61,009 corpus weight
- prémisse
prémisse
61,008 corpus weight
- prérequis
prérequis
61,007 corpus weight
- prévoyaient
prévoyaient
61,006 corpus weight
What this shows « prévoyaient » 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 | prévoyaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévoyaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prévoyaient (IPA \pʁe.vwa.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévoyaient, with forms such as "pprévoyaient", "prevoyaient", and "prrévoyaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "prévoyait", "prévoyant", "prévoient", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prévoyaient, spelled P-R-É-V-O-Y-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de prévoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprévoyaient
- prevoyaient
- prrévoyaient
- prvéoyaient
- préovyaient
- prévoayient
- prévoyaeint
- prévoyaiennt
- prévoyaientt
- prévoyaietn
- prévoyainet
- prévoyiaent
- prévoyyaient
- prévvoyaient
- prévyoaient
- pérvoyaient
- rpévoyaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévoyaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).