price

\pʁajs\

/\pʁajs\/ verb

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The verdict

“price” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,050
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-price · price · French

price · rank #10,050 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,050
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poupée

Nearest frequency peer: poupée (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « price »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « price » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

price vs prix
60% similar
price vs pris
60% similar
price vs puce
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for price
PropertyValue
Headwordprice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁajs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#10,050
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « price »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pricese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poupée » (#10,049), « productif » (#10,051), « pisser » (#10,048). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « price » est au #10,050. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around price (IPA \pʁajs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for price, with forms such as "pirce", "pprice", and "prcie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prix", "pris", "puce", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is price, spelled P-R-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de pricer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de pricer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de pricer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pirce
  • pprice
  • prcie
  • pricce
  • priec
  • prrice
  • rpice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of price - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

pirce2pprice1prcie2pricce1priec2prrice1rpice2
Edit distance from "price"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "price"?
"price" is spelled P-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁajs\.
What does "price" mean?
As a verb, "price" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer.
What words are commonly confused with "price"?
"price" is commonly confused with "prix", "pris", "puce". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "price"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "price" is \pʁajs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "price" come from?
"price" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "price", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

reins#10,059neufs#10,037resta#10,063serie#10,072

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

pisser7 variantssonner7 variantstrahi7 variantsTunis7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list