priorité

/\pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,161

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

priorité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Le fait de venir avant, dans l’ordre du temps. Pronounced \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\. It ranks #3,161 in French word frequency. Often confused with profité and probité.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for priorité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,161 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for priorité, with forms such as "pirorité", "ppriorité", and "prioirté". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "profité", "probité", "priorités", 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 priorité, spelled P-R-I-O-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirorité,ppriorité,prioirté,priorite,prioritté,prioriét,priorrité,priortié,priroité,proirité,prriorité,rpiorité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for priorité

Misspelling Variants of "priorité"

pirorité8ppriorité9prioirté8priorite8prioritté9prioriét8priorrité9priortié8
Misspelling Variants of "priorité"

Frequency rank: #3,161 in French

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 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.