prius
The verdict
“prius” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #44,857 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #44,857
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eher, vorher, früher, zuvor
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 | prius |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prius” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for prius is 5 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #44,857 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eher, vorher, früher, zuvor".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for prius, with forms such as "pirus", "pprius", and "prisu". 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, "prix", "prüf", "pros", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is prius, spelled P-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1eher, vorher, früher, zuvor
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirus,pprius,prisu,priuss,prrius,pruis,rpius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prius - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prius”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-R-I-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “prix” - see the side-by-side comparison. prius vs prix
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.