prude

\pʁyd\

/\pʁyd\/ adj

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The verdict

“prude” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,734. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,734
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne une personne sage, honnête, vertueuse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prude · prude · French

prude · rank #48,734 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,734
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH proviendrait

Nearest frequency peer: proviendrait (-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 « prude »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « prude » 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).

prude vs pue
60% similar
prude vs pure
60% similar
prude vs pute
60% similar

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

Key facts for prude
PropertyValue
Headwordprude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁyd\
Letters5
Frequency rank#48,734
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prude »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prudese 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 « proviendrait » (#48,733), « préféreraient » (#48,735), « prospèrent » (#48,732). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prude » est au #48,734. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around prude (IPA \pʁyd\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,734 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for prude, with forms such as "pprude", "prdue", and "prrude". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pue", "pure", "pute", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prude, spelled P-R-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Désigne une personne sage, honnête, vertueuse.
  2. 2
    Qui a l’air et les manières de la pruderie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On n'a jamais très bien compris ce qu'on reprochait aux poses très prudes et un rien mélancolique de l'étudiante génépiste qui s'y était prêtée.
  2. Elle a toujours passé pour prude.

This word in other languages

prudish(English)mojigato(Español)prüde(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pprude
  • prdue
  • prrude
  • prudde
  • prued
  • purde
  • rpude

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

pprude1prdue2prrude1prudde1prued2purde2rpude2
Edit distance from "prude"

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 "prude"?
"prude" is spelled P-R-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁyd\.
What does "prude" mean?
As an adjective, "prude" means: Désigne une personne sage, honnête, vertueuse.
What words are commonly confused with "prude"?
"prude" is commonly confused with "pue", "pure", "pute". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prude" is \pʁyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prude" come from?
"prude" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pètes#48,737pfiou#48,715peler#48,708riffs#48,765

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

paddle7 variantsroques7 variantsorton7 variantsrâles7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list