priais
\pʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“priais” is uncommon French (frequency #68,564 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,564
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-priais · priais · French
priais · rank #68,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,564
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH probiotiques
Nearest frequency peer: probiotiques (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « priais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poussèrent
poussèrent
31,440 corpus weight
- priais
priais
31,437 corpus weight
- probiotiques
probiotiques
31,436 corpus weight
- profitais
profitais
31,435 corpus weight
- programming
programming
31,434 corpus weight
- proses
proses
31,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « priais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | priais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « priais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
priais is uncommon French at frequency #68,564 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for priais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is priais, spelled P-R-I-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prier.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prier.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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