prise
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁiz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Faculté de prendre, de saisir.
- 2Action de prendre quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 3Action de s’emparer d’un navire ; le navire capturé.
- 4Succession de mouvements ayant pour but de neutraliser un adversaire ou de s’en libérer.
- 5Manière de tenir un engin de sport.
- 6Chose ou proie qui a été saisie.
- 7Personne ou chose qui s’est jointe, a été attirée, est demeurée.
- 8Saillie ou autre relief permettant de prendre appui pour l’escalade.
- 9Dose qu’on prend en une fois, en parlant de médicament ou de drogue.
- 10Pincée de tabac.
- 11Solidification en parlant du plâtre, du ciment, de la chaux, etc.
- 12Coagulation, caillage, en parlant du lait.
- 13Action 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 :
- 14prise de courant ou port de données électronique.
- 15Fiche (électrique, ou de câble de données).
- 16Terrain pris sur la mer.
- 17L'une des trois chances d'un frappeur, de l'anglais strike.
- 18Séquence 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"
Frequency rank: #758 in French
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