prince
\pʁɛ̃s\
The verdict
“prince” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,338 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,338
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui est d’une maison souveraine.
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 | prince |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prince” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prince is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,338 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prince, with forms such as "pirnce", "pprince", and "pricne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prise", "privé", "prône", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prince, spelled P-R-I-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est d’une maison souveraine.
- 2Fils du roi ou du souverain régnant équivalent.
- 3Souverain qui commande dans le lieu dont on parle.
- 4Celui qui, sans être souverain, ni de maison souveraine, est à la tête d’une principauté, ou celui à qui un souverain a conféré ce titre.
- 5Celui qui est le premier par ordre de dignité, de mérite, de talent.
- 6Celui qui est le premier, le meilleur dans son genre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirnce,pprince,pricne,princce,prinec,prinnce,prnice,prrince,rpince
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prince - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “prince”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɛ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “prise” - see the side-by-side comparison. prince vs prise
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.