Which to use
“price” is a verb and “prisés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #10,050
- “price” frequency rank
- #37,979
- “prisés” frequency rank
- 48029
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | price | prisés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pricer. | Masculin pluriel de prisé. |
Where the eye mixes price and prisés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. price runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against prisés's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: price vs prisés
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: price is \pʁajs\ while prisés is \pʁi.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48029, 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\. prisés is at rank #37,979, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁi.ze\.
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 48029, this pair ranks #182,200 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of price vs prisés
Shared letters: ipr. Private to "price": ce. Private to "prisés": sé.
"price" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "prisés" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- price ← pirce · pprice · prcie · pricce · priec · prrice · rpice
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "price" and "prisés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "price" or "prisés" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "price" and "prisés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "price" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #182,200 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "price" and "prisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "priée vs prisés". 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 #182,200 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.