priver
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,060
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
priver is aFrenchverb. It means: Ôter à quelqu’un ce qu’il a, ce qu’il possède, l’empêcher de jouir de quelque avantage qu’il avait ou pouvait avoir, le dépouiller de quelque chose qui lui appartient. Pronounced \pʁi.ve\. It ranks #9,060 in French word frequency. Often confused with prize and privés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | priver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁi.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for priver is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,060 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for priver, with forms such as "pirver", "ppriver", and "prievr". 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, "prize", "privés", "puiser", 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 priver, spelled P-R-I-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ôter à quelqu’un ce qu’il a, ce qu’il possède, l’empêcher de jouir de quelque avantage qu’il avait ou pouvait avoir, le dépouiller de quelque chose qui lui appartient.
- 2Retirer à quelqu'un ce qu’il désire.
- 3Se refuser un plaisir, un désir, un avantage ; s’imposer des privations.
- 4S’abstenir de réagir ou de faire quelque chose.
- 5S’apprivoiser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirver,ppriver,prievr,priverr,privre,privver,prriver,prvier,rpiver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for priver
Misspelling Variants of "priver"
Frequency rank: #9,060 in French
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