prieure
\pʁi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“prieure” is uncommon French (frequency #58,856 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,856
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supérieure dans un monastère de femmes, soit en chef, soit sous une abbesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prieure · prieure · French
prieure · rank #58,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poussiéreuse
Nearest frequency peer: poussiéreuse (-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 « prieure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pousseront
pousseront
41,148 corpus weight
- poussif
poussif
41,147 corpus weight
- poussiéreuse
poussiéreuse
41,146 corpus weight
- prieure
prieure
41,145 corpus weight
- privilégiez
privilégiez
41,144 corpus weight
- profilent
profilent
41,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prieure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prieure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prieure is uncommon French at frequency #58,856 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Supérieure dans un monastère de femmes, soit en chef, soit sous une abbesse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prieure in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prieure, spelled P-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Supérieure dans un monastère de femmes, soit en chef, soit sous une abbesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prieure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elisabeth-Claire de Choiseul-Beaupré, dite de Ste Pélagie, abbesse, née à Sommeville (Marne) le 6 mai 1720 d’Antoine, marquis de Ch., brigadier des armées du roi, et de Charlotte Distofh, profession le 14 octobre 1742 ; nommée en février 1755 prieure de Charenton, […].
Quand Julienne devint prieure, peu avant 1240, elle trouva une discipline qu’elle estima fort relâchée.
This word in other languages
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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