priori

adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,390

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

priori is anFrenchadj. It means: Datif singulier de prior. It ranks #5,390 in French word frequency. Often confused with priorité and prier.

Key facts for priori
PropertyValue
Headwordpriori
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,390
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of priori in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for priori is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #5,390 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Datif singulier de prior.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for priori, with forms such as "pirori", "ppriori", and "prioir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "priorité", "prier", "prior", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is priori, spelled P-R-I-O-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Datif singulier de prior.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirori,ppriori,prioir,priorri,priroi,proiri,prriori,rpiori

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for priori

Misspelling Variants of "priori"

pirori6ppriori7prioir6priorri7priroi6proiri6prriori7rpiori6
Misspelling Variants of "priori"

Frequency rank: #5,390 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "priori"?
"priori" is spelled P-R-I-O-R-I.
What does "priori" mean?
As an adj, "priori" means: Datif singulier de prior.
What words are commonly confused with "priori"?
"priori" is commonly confused with "priorité", "prier", "prior". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "priori" come from?
"priori" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.