priéevspriséesConfusable pair

Quick tell: priée is a verb, prisées is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“priée” is a verb and “prisées” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,295
“priée” frequency rank
#43,611
“prisées” frequency rank
92906
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature priée prisées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de prier. Pluriel de prisée.

Where the eye mixes priée and prisées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. priée runs 5 letters (CCVVV) against prisées's 7 (CCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
priée
7 ch
prisées

Visual trap between priée and prisées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: priée is \pʁi.je\ while prisées is \pʁi.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 92906, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

priée is recorded at frequency rank #49,295, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁi.je\. prisées is at rank #43,611, tagged as anoun, 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 92906, this pair ranks #2,664 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of priée vs prisées

Shared letters: eipré. Private to "priée": -. Private to "prisées": s.

"priée" · 5 letters · shape CCVVV  ·  "prisées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "priée" for "prisées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "priée" is a verb and "prisées" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "priée" vs "prisées" - which ranks higher?
"prisées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,611 in our French list, against #49,295 for "priée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "priée" and "prisées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "priée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "prisées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #2,664 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "priée" and "prisées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prep vs priée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #2,664 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