prévu
\pʁe.vy\
The verdict
“prévu” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,401
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a été prévu, à quoi l’on s’attend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevu · prévu · French
prévu · rank #1,401 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,401
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présenter
Nearest frequency peer: présenter (-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 « prévu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- papier
papier
98,603 corpus weight
- présenter
présenter
98,601 corpus weight
- prévu
prévu
98,600 corpus weight
- regardez
regardez
98,599 corpus weight
- sites
sites
98,598 corpus weight
- sociétés
sociétés
98,597 corpus weight
What this shows « prévu » 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 | prévu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁe.vy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around prévu (IPA \pʁe.vy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,401 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a été prévu, à quoi l’on s’attend.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévu, with forms such as "pprévu", "prevu", and "prrévu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prou", "Prez", "privé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prévu, spelled P-R-É-V-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a été prévu, à quoi l’on s’attend.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprévu
- prevu
- prrévu
- prvéu
- préuv
- prévvu
- pérvu
- rpévu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prévu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).