prirent
\pʁiʁ\
The verdict
“prirent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,564. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,564
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe prendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prirent · prirent · French
prirent · rank #18,564 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,564
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourriture
Nearest frequency peer: pourriture (-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 « prirent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- playlist
playlist
81,440 corpus weight
- potager
potager
81,439 corpus weight
- pourriture
pourriture
81,438 corpus weight
- prirent
prirent
81,437 corpus weight
- prologue
prologue
81,435 corpus weight
- pronostics
pronostics
81,434 corpus weight
What this shows « prirent » 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 | prirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prirent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prirent (IPA \pʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,564 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe prendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prirent, with forms such as "pirrent", "pprirent", and "priernt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "purent", "prudent", "privant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prirent, spelled P-R-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe prendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prirent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques hommes seulement prirent part aux obsèques et peu de femmes même, de celles qui profitent de toutes les occasions pour sortir leurs vêtements noirs, leurs toquets de crêpe et qui aiment renifler l’odeur de l'encens.
Le noble fabricant se plaignit de la longueur des pains de quatre livres, de la hauteur des maisons, de l’indifférence des passants les uns pour les autres, du froid et de la pluie, de la cherté des demi-fiacres, et tout cela si spirituellement que les deux artistes se prirent de belle amitié pour Gazonal et lui firent raconter son procès.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirrent
- pprirent
- priernt
- prirennt
- prirentt
- priretn
- prirnet
- prirrent
- prrient
- prrirent
- rpirent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prirent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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