privat
\pʁiˈvaːt\
The verdict
“privat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,949
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Privé, caractérise la structure propriétaire, opposé à public ou étatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privat · privat · French
privat · rank #39,949 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,949
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prom
Nearest frequency peer: prom (+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 « privat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- porterai
porterai
60,056 corpus weight
- preniez
preniez
60,055 corpus weight
- privat
privat
60,052 corpus weight
- prom
prom
60,051 corpus weight
- promené
promené
60,050 corpus weight
- prononcera
prononcera
60,049 corpus weight
What this shows « privat » 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 | privat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁiˈvaːt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « privat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around privat (IPA \pʁiˈvaːt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,949 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for privat, with forms such as "pirvat", "pprivat", and "priavt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "privé", "privée", "privés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is privat, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T.
Definition
- 1Privé, caractérise la structure propriétaire, opposé à public ou étatique.
- 2Privé, personnel, qui concerne une personne ou sa vie privée.
- 3Privé, réservé à certains particuliers ; qui n’est pas public.
- 4Privé, relatif à une personne, opposé à une entreprise.
- 5Privé, qui est en dehors de son service professionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how privat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wer heute dafür sorgen will, dass er später nicht auf das Wohlwollen des Gesetzgebers angewiesen ist, wenn er pflegebedürftig wird, muss privat vorsorgen.
Um maßgeschneiderte KI-Lösungen zu entwickeln, ihre industrielle Nutzung sowie ihre vollständige Übernahme in strategischen öffentlichen und privaten Sektoren der EU weiter zu fördern, wird die Kommission in den kommenden Monaten die Strategie „KI anwenden“ auf den Weg bringen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirvat
- pprivat
- priavt
- privatt
- privta
- privvat
- prrivat
- prviat
- rpivat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of privat - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "privat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).