priced
/pɹaɪst/
"priced" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“priced” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #7,485 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,485
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of price
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 | priced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹaɪst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “priced” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for priced is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɹaɪst/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,485 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of price".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for priced, with forms such as "pirced", "ppriced", and "prcied". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prime", "prize", "pride", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is priced, spelled P-R-I-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of price
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirced,ppriced,prcied,pricced,pricde,pricedd,priecd,prriced,rpiced
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of priced - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “priced”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-I-C-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɹaɪst/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “prime” - see the side-by-side comparison. priced vs prime
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English 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.