Which to use
“prévoient” and “prévoit” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,453
- “prévoient” frequency rank
- #4,093
- “prévoit” frequency rank
- 20546
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prévoient | prévoit |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de prévoir. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de prévoir. |
Same sound, different letters: prévoient vs prévoit
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. prévoient runs 9 letters (CCVCVVVCC) against prévoit's 7 (CCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - prévoient and prévoit
This is the hard kind. prévoient and prévoit are pronounced identically (\pʁe.vwa\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prévoient is recorded at frequency rank #16,453, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁe.vwa\. prévoit is at rank #4,093, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁe.vwa\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 20546, this pair ranks #367,738 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of prévoient vs prévoit
Shared letters: ioprtvé. Private to "prévoient": en. Private to "prévoit": -.
"prévoient" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVVCC · "prévoit" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "prévoient" and "prévoit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "prévoient" or "prévoit" show up more?
Useful next steps
"prévoient" and "prévoit" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "prévoient" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prévoit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #367,738 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prévoient" and "prévoit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prévalent vs prévoient". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #367,738 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.