prudent
\pʁy.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“prudent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,105
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne prend pas de risque immodéré, qui prend des précautions, sage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prudent · prudent · French
prudent · rank #7,105 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,105
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH provincial
Nearest frequency peer: provincial (-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 « prudent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- procurer
procurer
92,899 corpus weight
- progresser
progresser
92,898 corpus weight
- provincial
provincial
92,897 corpus weight
- prudent
prudent
92,896 corpus weight
- prévisions
prévisions
92,895 corpus weight
- renforcement
renforcement
92,893 corpus weight
What this shows « prudent » 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 | prudent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁy.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prudent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prudent (IPA \pʁy.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,105 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prudent, with forms such as "pprudent", "prduent", and "prrudent". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "puent", "purent", "prudente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prudent, spelled P-R-U-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne prend pas de risque immodéré, qui prend des précautions, sage.
- 2Tempéré, fondé sur l’aversion au risque et au danger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prudent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l'espèce humaine, la Parthénogénèse n'a été vue que par les yeux de la foi ; il n'en est pas ainsi dans les rangs inférieurs de l'animalité, et même à ce degré, la chose est si extraordinaire qu'elle a dû, au début, être accueillie par les esprits prudents avec certaines réserves, sinon même avec incrédulité.
Il a tenu une conduite prudente dans cette affaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprudent
- prduent
- prrudent
- pruddent
- prudennt
- prudentt
- prudetn
- prudnet
- pruednt
- purdent
- rpudent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prudent - 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 "prudent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).