prio
\pʁjo\
The verdict
“prio” is uncommon French (frequency #93,115 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,115
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prio · prio · French
prio · rank #93,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,115
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primrose
Nearest frequency peer: primrose (-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 « prio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- primevères
primevères
6,888 corpus weight
- primrose
primrose
6,887 corpus weight
- prio
prio
6,886 corpus weight
- privilégiera
privilégiera
6,885 corpus weight
- profilée
profilée
6,884 corpus weight
- profiterez
profiterez
6,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁjo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prio is uncommon French at frequency #93,115 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Priorité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prio, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prio, spelled P-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Priorité.
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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