prioritise
"prioritise" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prioritise” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,640
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - British standard spelling of prioritize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-prioritise · prioritise · English
prioritise · rank #37,640 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,640
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH presser
Nearest frequency peer: presser (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “prioritise”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- preservative
preservative
62,364 corpus weight
- presser
presser
62,362 corpus weight
- prioritise
prioritise
62,361 corpus weight
- probs
probs
62,360 corpus weight
- propelling
propelling
62,359 corpus weight
- propriety
propriety
62,358 corpus weight
What this shows “prioritise” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | prioritise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “prioritise”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prioritise, averb. Corpus frequency is #37,640 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "British standard spelling of prioritize.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prioritise, with forms such as "piroritise", "pprioritise", and "prioirtise". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prioritize", "priorities", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From priority + -ise. The correct English form is prioritise, spelled P-R-I-O-R-I-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1British standard spelling of prioritize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prioritise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Work is being prioritised on the upper concourse at Whitechapel to allow the station's Whitechapel Road entrance to reopen in spring of next year, replacing the temporary entrance in providing access to the Underground and Overground lines.
When facts have become debatable, she said, and when “the world’s largest distributor of news prioritises the spread of lies laced with anger and hate – then journalism becomes activism … It’s about the facts, right?” She told Norwegian TV the reward gave her and Rappler “tremendous energy to continue the fight”.
Etymology
From priority + -ise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piroritise
- pprioritise
- prioirtise
- prioriitse
- prioritisse
- prioritsie
- priorittise
- priorritise
- priortiise
- priroitise
- proiritise
- prrioritise
- rpioritise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prioritise - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prioritise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).