prieurs
\pʁi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“prieurs” is uncommon French (frequency #56,191 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,191
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prieurs · prieurs · French
prieurs · rank #56,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,191
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prey
Nearest frequency peer: prey (-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 « prieurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- presta
presta
43,813 corpus weight
- pretend
pretend
43,812 corpus weight
- prey
prey
43,811 corpus weight
- prieurs
prieurs
43,810 corpus weight
- proclamait
proclamait
43,809 corpus weight
- prolifiques
prolifiques
43,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prieurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prieurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prieurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prieurs is uncommon French at frequency #56,191 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de prieur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prieurs in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 prieurs, spelled P-R-I-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prieurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prieurs étaient nommés par eux, d’accord avec les frères présents à Saint-Michel, et souvent ils représentèrent un pouvoir modérateur entre le prieur et les habitants.
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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