prise

/\pʁiz\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#758

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

prise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté de prendre, de saisir. Pronounced \pʁiz\. It ranks #758 in French word frequency. Often confused with puis and prix.

Key facts for prise
PropertyValue
Headwordprise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁiz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#758
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prise is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #758 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for prise, with forms such as "pirse", "pprise", and "pries". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puis", "prix", "pros", 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 prise, spelled P-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faculté de prendre, de saisir.
  2. 2
    Action de prendre quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Action de s’emparer d’un navire ; le navire capturé.
  4. 4
    Succession de mouvements ayant pour but de neutraliser un adversaire ou de s’en libérer.
  5. 5
    Manière de tenir un engin de sport.
  6. 6
    Chose ou proie qui a été saisie.
  7. 7
    Personne ou chose qui s’est jointe, a été attirée, est demeurée.
  8. 8
    Saillie ou autre relief permettant de prendre appui pour l’escalade.
  9. 9
    Dose qu’on prend en une fois, en parlant de médicament ou de drogue.
  10. 10
    Pincée de tabac.
  11. 11
    Solidification en parlant du plâtre, du ciment, de la chaux, etc.
  12. 12
    Coagulation, caillage, en parlant du lait.
  13. 13
    Action de combattre. Il se dit aussi de deux ou de plusieurs personnes qui disputent ou qui jouent les unes contre les autres. On ne l’emploie guère en ce sens que dans les locutions suivantes :
  14. 14
    prise de courant ou port de données électronique.
  15. 15
    Fiche (électrique, ou de câble de données).
  16. 16
    Terrain pris sur la mer.
  17. 17
    L'une des trois chances d'un frappeur, de l'anglais strike.
  18. 18
    Séquence de tournage.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirse,pprise,pries,prisse,prrise,prsie,rpise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prise

Misspelling Variants of "prise"

pirse5pprise6pries5prisse6prrise6prsie5rpise5
Misspelling Variants of "prise"

Frequency rank: #758 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prise"?
"prise" is spelled P-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁiz\.
What does "prise" mean?
As a noun, "prise" means: Faculté de prendre, de saisir.
What words are commonly confused with "prise"?
"prise" is commonly confused with "puis", "prix", "pros". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prise" is \pʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prise" come from?
"prise" 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.