Pryce
The verdict
“Pryce” is uncommon French (frequency #63,266 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,266
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pryce · Pryce · French
Pryce · rank #63,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,266
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pruniers
Nearest frequency peer: pruniers (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Pryce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- protégerait
protégerait
36,738 corpus weight
- pruniers
pruniers
36,736 corpus weight
- Pryce
Pryce
36,735 corpus weight
- préférentie…
préférentiellement
36,734 corpus weight
- préviendra
préviendra
36,733 corpus weight
- pygmée
pygmée
36,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pryce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pryce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pryce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pryce is uncommon French at frequency #63,266 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pryce, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Pryce, spelled P-R-Y-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pryce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une complicité racontée dans la saison 5 de The Crown, dans laquelle le prince vieillissant est incarné par Jonathan Pryce et Penelope Knatchbull par Natascha McElhone.
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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