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prioritise

verb

prioritise is spelled P-R-I-O-R-I-T-I-S-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, prioritise means “UK standard spelling of prioritize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in prioritise?

Letters10: P-R-I-O-R-I-T-I-S-E
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 37,459th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is prioritise?

Prioritise appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th 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).

What rhymes with prioritise?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as prioritise.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: priorities.

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 prioritise

  • prioritises present, singular, he/she/it
  • prioritising participle, present
  • prioritised participle, past

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

What does prioritise mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    UK standard spelling of prioritize.

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

Where does prioritise come from?

From priority + -ise.

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

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