priorité

\pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\

/\pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“priorité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,161
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le fait de venir avant, dans l’ordre du temps.

Corpus desk

Index FR-priorite · priorité · French

priorité · rank #3,161 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,161
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poésie

Nearest frequency peer: poésie (-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 « priorité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « priorité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

priorité vs profité
75% similar
priorité vs probité
75% similar
priorité vs priorités
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for priorité
PropertyValue
Headwordpriorité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,161
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « priorité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prioritése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poésie » (#3,160), « probable » (#3,162), « Portugal » (#3,159). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « priorité » est au #3,161. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around priorité (IPA \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for priorité, with forms such as "pirorité", "ppriorité", and "prioirté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "profité", "probité", "priorités", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is priorité, spelled P-R-I-O-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le fait de venir avant, dans l’ordre du temps.
  2. 2
    Droit, établi par des règlements, de passer avant un autre sur une route, de monter avant les autres dans une voiture de transports publics, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how priorité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Priorité d’hypothèque.
  2. Ce savant revendique la priorité de sa découverte.

This word in other languages

precedence(English)prioridad(Español)Vorsprung(Deutsch)antecedência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pirorité
  • ppriorité
  • prioirté
  • priorite
  • prioritté
  • prioriét
  • priorrité
  • priortié
  • priroité
  • proirité
  • prriorité
  • rpiorité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of priorité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

pirorité2ppriorité1prioirté2priorite1prioritté1prioriét2priorrité1priortié2
Edit distance from "priorité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "priorité"?
"priorité" is spelled P-R-I-O-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\.
What does "priorité" mean?
As a noun, "priorité" means: Le fait de venir avant, dans l’ordre du temps.
What words are commonly confused with "priorité"?
"priorité" is commonly confused with "profité", "probité", "priorités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "priorité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "priorité" is \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "priorité" come from?
"priorité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "priorité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

probable#3,162Portugal#3,159richesse#3,166sensible#3,169

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

totalité12 variantséditions12 variantsattendent12 variantsfaisaient12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list