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price

/ˈpɹaɪ̯s/noun, verb

price is spelled P-R-I-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 170 times per million words in written English, the 591st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “price vs prize” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, price means “The cost required to gain possession of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of price is prices.

How many letters and syllables are in price?

Letters5: P-R-I-C-E
Syllables1
In writing170 times per million words; the 591st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is price?

Price appears 170 times per million words in written English, the 591st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce price?

  • US /ˈpɹaɪ̯s/
  • /ˈpɹɐɪ̯s/
  • /ˈpɹɜɪ̯s/

Price has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-price.ogg, En-uk-price.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with price

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

price vs prize260 G

Also written: pris, prize.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with price?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as price from its last stressed vowel (/aɪs/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of price

  • prices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • pricing participle, present
  • priced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does price mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The cost required to gain possession of something.

  2. 2

    The cost of an action or deed.

    I paid a high price for my folly.

  3. 3

    Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

verb

  1. 1

    To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.

  2. 2

    To find out what something costs

    We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo pay the price of; to make reparation for.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo set a price on; to value; to prize.

  5. 5

    colloquialdatedTo ask the price of.

    to price eggs

noun

as PRICE
  1. 1

    Acronym of protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation (“a common treatment method for sprained joints”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Price in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchprix (cost required to gain possession of something)
GermanPreis (cost required to gain possession of something), Wert (value)
Portuguesepreço (cost required to gain possession of something), valor (value), avaliar, orçar (determine or put a price on something)
Spanishprecio (cost required to gain possession of something), preciar, apreciar, justipreciar (determine or put a price on something)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does price come from?

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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