prévoyais
\pʁe.vwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“prévoyais” is uncommon French (frequency #76,042 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,042
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevoyais · prévoyais · French
prévoyais · rank #76,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,042
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préfabriquées
Nearest frequency peer: préfabriquées (-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 « prévoyais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédisaient
prédisaient
23,962 corpus weight
- prédéfinis
prédéfinis
23,961 corpus weight
- préfabriqué…
préfabriquées
23,960 corpus weight
- prévoyais
prévoyais
23,959 corpus weight
- publièrent
publièrent
23,957 corpus weight
- pulvérisés
pulvérisés
23,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prévoyais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prévoyais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.vwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prévoyais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prévoyais is uncommon French at frequency #76,042 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.vwa.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prévoyais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prévoyais, spelled P-R-É-V-O-Y-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de prévoir.
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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