prières
\pʁi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“prières” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,356
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prieres · prières · French
prières · rank #7,356 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prisons
Nearest frequency peer: prisons (-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 « prières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plancher
plancher
92,648 corpus weight
- posez
posez
92,647 corpus weight
- prisons
prisons
92,646 corpus weight
- prières
prières
92,645 corpus weight
- préoccupati…
préoccupations
92,644 corpus weight
- Pâques
Pâques
92,642 corpus weight
What this shows « prières » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | prières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prières (IPA \pʁi.jɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,356 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de prière.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prières, with forms such as "pirères", "pprières", and "prieres". 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, "priés", "privés", "prisés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prières, spelled P-R-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a quelque tems, un des collaborateurs des Archives, passant par Arras, voulut visiter ce dépôt, dont le Traité des matériaux manuscrits de M. Monteil lui avait révélé l’importance ; mais les eunuques restèrent sourds à ses prières, et la porte du sérail ne put même s’entrebaisser pour laisser pénétrer un regard furtif du voyageur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirères
- pprières
- prieres
- prirèes
- prièers
- prièress
- prièrres
- prièrse
- prrières
- prèires
- rpières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prières - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prières", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).