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Which to use

“prévôt” and “prévôté” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#26,147
“prévôt” frequency rank
#41,981
“prévôté” frequency rank
68128
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature prévôt prévôté
Definition Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance. Qualité, fonction, juridiction de prévôt.

Where the eye mixes prévôt and prévôté

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

6 ch
prévôt
7 ch
prévôté

Look-alike desk: prévôt vs prévôté

A purely visual mix-up. prévôt (\pʁe.vo\) and prévôté (\pʁe.vo.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “prévôt” sits inside “prévôté”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68128, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

prévôt is recorded at frequency rank #26,147, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁe.vo\. prévôté is at rank #41,981, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁe.vo.te\.

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 68128, this pair ranks #60,445 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of prévôt vs prévôté

Shared letters: prtvéô. Private to "prévôt": -. Private to "prévôté": -.

"prévôt" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "prévôté" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "prévôt" and "prévôté" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\pʁe.vo\ versus \pʁe.vo.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "prévôt" vs "prévôté" - which ranks higher?
"prévôt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,147 in our French list, against #41,981 for "prévôté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "prévôt" and "prévôté" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "prévôt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "prévôté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #60,445 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "prévôt" and "prévôté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "précité vs prévôté". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #60,445 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list