Privileg
\pʁiviˈleːk\
The verdict
“Privileg” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Privilège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privileg · Privileg · French
Privileg · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Privileg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁiviˈleːk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Privileg is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁiviˈleːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Privilège.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Privileg, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Privileg, spelled P-R-I-V-I-L-E-G.
Definition
- 1Privilège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Privileg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Da es Männer waren, die die Gesetze gemacht und zusammengestellt haben, begünstigten sie ihr Geschlecht, und die Rechtsgelehrten verkehrten die Gesetze in Privilegien», sagte Poulain de la Barre weiter.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.