privilège
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,732
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
privilège is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté accordée à un particulier ou à une communauté de faire quelque chose ou de jouir de quelque avantage qui n’est pas de droit commun. Pronounced \pʁi.vi.lɛʒ\. It ranks #6,732 in French word frequency. Often confused with privilèges and privilégié.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | privilège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.vi.lɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for privilège is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.vi.lɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,732 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 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for privilège, with forms such as "pirvilège", "pprivilège", and "priivlège". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "privilèges", "privilégié", "privilégier", 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 privilège, spelled P-R-I-V-I-L-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faculté accordée à un particulier ou à une communauté de faire quelque chose ou de jouir de quelque avantage qui n’est pas de droit commun.
- 2Acte qui contient la concession d’un privilège.
- 3Droit, prérogative, avantage.
- 4Titre à la préférence, droit que la qualité de la créance donne à un créancier d’être préféré aux autres créanciers, même hypothécaires.
- 5Dons naturels, soit du corps, soit de l’esprit.
- 6Liberté, prérogative que l’on s’attribue dans la société, ou que les autres vous accordent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirvilège,pprivilège,priivlège,privilege,privilgèe,privillège,privilèeg,privilègge,privièlge,privliège,privvilège,prrivilège,prviilège,rpivilège
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for privilège
Misspelling Variants of "privilège"
Frequency rank: #6,732 in French
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