prin
\pʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“prin” is uncommon French (frequency #54,805 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,805
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corde destinée à réunir les filets de pêche, à attacher les bordigues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prin · prin · French
prin · rank #54,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,805
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH priment
Nearest frequency peer: priment (-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 « prin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- posément
posément
45,199 corpus weight
- Pradel
Pradel
45,198 corpus weight
- priment
priment
45,197 corpus weight
- prin
prin
45,196 corpus weight
- proactive
proactive
45,195 corpus weight
- prohibitifs
prohibitifs
45,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prin is uncommon French at frequency #54,805 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Corde destinée à réunir les filets de pêche, à attacher les bordigues.".
prin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prin, spelled P-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Corde destinée à réunir les filets de pêche, à attacher les bordigues.
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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