primauté

\pʁi.mo.te\

/\pʁi.mo.te\/ noun

The verdict

“primauté” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,726
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prééminence ; premier rang.

Corpus desk

Index FR-primaute · primauté · French

primauté · rank #24,726 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,726
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH PPP

Nearest frequency peer: PPP (-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 « primauté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « primauté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

primauté vs private
63% similar
primauté vs Primat
63% similar
primauté vs primaire
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for primauté
PropertyValue
Headwordprimauté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁi.mo.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#24,726
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « primauté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.primautése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « PPP » (#24,725), « productives » (#24,727), « pourtour » (#24,724). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « primauté » est au #24,726. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around primauté (IPA \pʁi.mo.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,726 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for primauté, with forms such as "pirmauté", "pprimauté", and "priamuté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "private", "Primat", "primaire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 primauté, spelled P-R-I-M-A-U-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prééminence ; premier rang.
  2. 2
    Le fait pour une personne ou une organisation d'occuper le premier rang dans son domaine d'activité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how primauté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si Gobineau a été l'objet du dégoût, de la crainte, de l’ostracisme de nos « rationalistes », c'est qu'il s'est élevé à la fois contre leurs faux raisonnements et contre leur absurde principe de la primauté de la raison : […].
  2. Issues des engagements internationaux de la France et régulièrement introduites dans notre droit, [les normes internationales] s’imposent à toutes les normes de droit interne excepté celles qui ont valeur constitutionnelle. Cette primauté englobe le droit dérivé, créé par les organisations internationales instituées par les traités.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pirmauté
  • pprimauté
  • priamuté
  • primatué
  • primaute
  • primautté
  • primauét
  • primmauté
  • primuaté
  • prmiauté
  • prrimauté
  • rpimauté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of primauté - 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.

pirmauté2pprimauté1priamuté2primatué2primaute1primautté1primauét2primmauté1
Edit distance from "primauté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "primauté"?
"primauté" is spelled P-R-I-M-A-U-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁi.mo.te\.
What does "primauté" mean?
As a noun, "primauté" means: Prééminence ; premier rang.
What words are commonly confused with "primauté"?
"primauté" is commonly confused with "private", "Primat", "primaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "primauté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "primauté" is \pʁi.mo.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "primauté" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "primauté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list