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Which to use

“price” and “primée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#10,050
“price” frequency rank
#45,245
“primée” frequency rank
55295
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature price primée
Definition Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer. Participe passé féminin singulier de primer.

Where the eye mixes price and primée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

5 ch
price
6 ch
primée

Why the eye confuses price with primée

A purely visual mix-up. price (\pʁajs\) and primée (\pʁi.me\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55295, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

price is recorded at frequency rank #10,050, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁajs\. primée is at rank #45,245, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁi.me\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 55295, this pair ranks #128,370 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of price vs primée

Shared letters: eipr. Private to "price": c. Private to "primée": .

"price" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "primée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pricepirce · pprice · prcie · pricce · priec · prrice · rpice

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "price" and "primée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\pʁajs\ versus \pʁi.me\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "price" or "primée"?
"price" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,050 in our French list, against #45,245 for "primée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "price" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "primée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #128,370 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "price" and "primée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "priée vs primée". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #128,370 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list