priser
French, verb/pʁi.ze/
priser is spelled P-R-I-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Priser is a French verb meaning “to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aspirer par le nez (du tabac, ou une autre substance : cocaïne, etc.)”.
What does priser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)
verb
- 1
to price (fix a price according to market forces)
- 2
to prize (consider something valuable)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aspirer par le nez (du tabac, ou une autre substance : cocaïne, etc.).
verb: 1. Apprécier, considérer quelque chose comme ayant de la valeur. 2. Fixer un prix en réponse à une demande sur un marché ou la valeur d’un bien ou d’un instrument financier, pour des raisons comptables, que ce soit sur un marché organisé ou un marché de gré à gré.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of priser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prisé participle past
- prise first-person indicative present
- prises indicative present second-person
- prisons first-person indicative plural
- prisez indicative plural present
- prisent indicative plural present
- prisais first-person imperfect indicative
- prisait imperfect indicative singular
- prisions first-person imperfect indicative
- prisiez imperfect indicative plural
- prisaient imperfect indicative plural
- prisai first-person historic indicative
- prisas historic indicative past
- prisa historic indicative past
- prisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce priser?
- /pʁi.ze/
- \pʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is priser in French?
priser appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).