primaire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,295
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
primaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est du premier degré ; qui est au premier degré. Pronounced \pʁi.mɛʁ\. It ranks #2,295 in French word frequency. Often confused with primauté and primaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pʁi.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for primaire is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.mɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,295 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for primaire, with forms such as "pirmaire", "pprimaire", and "priamire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "primauté", "primaires", "précaire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is primaire, spelled P-R-I-M-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est du premier degré ; qui est au premier degré.
- 2Caractéristique d'un dogmatisme simpliste, de préjugés et d'un manque de culture.
- 3Qualifie l'assemblée qui forme le premier degré d’un système d’élection, et où les citoyens sont appelés pour choisir des électeurs.
- 4Qualifie l'école où l’on commence l’instruction des enfants et l'instruction que l'on y reçoit.
- 5Ancien.
- 6Qualifie une forêt installée depuis la fin des glaciations et que les humains n'ont pas modifiée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirmaire,pprimaire,priamire,primaier,primairre,primarie,primiare,primmaire,prmiaire,prrimaire,rpimaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for primaire
Misspelling Variants of "primaire"
Frequency rank: #2,295 in French
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