priceless
\ˈpɹaɪs.lɪs\
The verdict
“priceless” is uncommon French (frequency #67,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inestimable, sans prix, de par sa valeur exceptionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-priceless · priceless · French
priceless · rank #67,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,017
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH priaient
Nearest frequency peer: priaient (-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 « priceless »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PPL
PPL
32,987 corpus weight
- priaient
priaient
32,985 corpus weight
- priceless
priceless
32,984 corpus weight
- privait
privait
32,983 corpus weight
- prosaïqueme…
prosaïquement
32,982 corpus weight
- proscrite
proscrite
32,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « priceless » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | priceless |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpɹaɪs.lɪs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « priceless » en français
Rare enough to double-check
priceless is uncommon French at frequency #67,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpɹaɪs.lɪs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inestimable, sans prix, de par sa valeur exceptionnelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for priceless in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is priceless, spelled P-R-I-C-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Inestimable, sans prix, de par sa valeur exceptionnelle.
Synonyms
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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