Which to use
“priorité” and “priorités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,161
- “priorité” frequency rank
- #6,871
- “priorités” frequency rank
- 10032
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | priorité | priorités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Le fait de venir avant, dans l’ordre du temps. | Pluriel de priorité. |
Same sound, different letters: priorité vs priorités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. priorité runs 8 letters (CCVVCVCV) against priorités's 9 (CCVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - priorité and priorités
This is the hard kind. priorité and priorités are pronounced identically (\pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “priorité” sits inside “priorités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10032, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
priorité is recorded at frequency rank #3,161, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\. priorités is at rank #6,871, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.jɔ.ʁi.te\.
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 10032, this pair ranks #414,466 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of priorité vs priorités
Shared letters: ioprté. Private to "priorité": -. Private to "priorités": s.
"priorité" · 8 letters · shape CCVVCVCV · "priorités" · 9 letters · shape CCVVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "priorité" for "priorités" ever safe?
Frequency check: "priorité" vs "priorités" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "priorité" / "priorités". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "priorité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "priorités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #414,466 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "priorité" and "priorités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prioriser vs priorités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #414,466 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.