privilégier
\pʁi.vi.le.ʒje\
The verdict
“privilégier” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,554
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gratifier, doter d’un privilège, favoriser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privilegier · privilégier · French
privilégier · rank #10,554 · 17 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,554
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postale
Nearest frequency peer: postale (-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 « privilégier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pensaient
pensaient
89,450 corpus weight
- picard
picard
89,449 corpus weight
- postale
postale
89,448 corpus weight
- privilégier
privilégier
89,447 corpus weight
- progressiste
progressiste
89,446 corpus weight
- projections
projections
89,445 corpus weight
What this shows « privilégier » 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 | privilégier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁi.vi.le.ʒje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « privilégier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around privilégier (IPA \pʁi.vi.le.ʒje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,554 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for privilégier, with forms such as "pirvilégier", "pprivilégier", and "priivlégier". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "privilégiés", "privilège", "privilèges", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is privilégier, spelled P-R-I-V-I-L-É-G-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gratifier, doter d’un privilège, favoriser.
- 2Donner la priorité à quelque chose ou quelqu’un, lui accorder l’importance la plus élevée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how privilégier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’examen peut être complété par une séquence privilégiant le signal des liquides stationnaires en vue d’obtenir une uro-IRM qui remplace la classique urographie intraveineuse à la recherche d’une dilatation du système urinaire.
En cas de doute, la protection de l’enfant doit être privilégiée (principe de responsabilité).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirvilégier
- pprivilégier
- priivlégier
- privilegier
- privilgéier
- privillégier
- privilégeir
- priviléggier
- privilégierr
- privilégire
- priviléiger
- priviélgier
- privliégier
- privvilégier
- prrivilégier
- prviilégier
- rpivilégier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of privilégier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).