priori
The verdict
“priori” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,390
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Datif singulier de prior.
Corpus desk
Index FR-priori · priori · French
priori · rank #5,390 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,390
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primaires
Nearest frequency peer: primaires (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « priori »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pouce
pouce
94,613 corpus weight
- primaires
primaires
94,612 corpus weight
- priori
priori
94,611 corpus weight
- provenance
provenance
94,610 corpus weight
- refuge
refuge
94,609 corpus weight
- reposer
reposer
94,608 corpus weight
What this shows « priori » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | priori |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « priori »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around priori, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,390 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Datif singulier de prior.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for priori, with forms such as "pirori", "ppriori", and "prioir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "priorité", "prier", "prior", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is priori, spelled P-R-I-O-R-I.
Definition
- 1Datif singulier de prior.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how priori appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
→ voir a priori.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirori
- ppriori
- prioir
- priorri
- priroi
- proiri
- prriori
- rpiori
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of priori - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "priori", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).