prisvsptiTell them apart

Which to use

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

#302
“pris” frequency rank
#34,701
“pti” frequency rank
35003
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pris pti
Definition Occupé, pas disponible. Petit.

Letter map: pris vs pti

Shared letters muted; letters that set pris and pti apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
pris
3 ch
pti

Pair insight - pris / pti

pris and pti are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35003, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pris is recorded at frequency rank #302, classified as anadj, pronounced \pʁi\. pti is at rank #34,701, tagged as anadj.

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 35003, this pair ranks #279,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pris vs pti

Shared letters: ip. Private to "pris": rs. Private to "pti": t.

"pris" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "pti" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • prispirs · ppris · priss · prris · prsi · rpis

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pris" and "pti" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary French text, does "pris" or "pti" show up more?
"pris" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #302 in our French list, against #34,701 for "pti". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "pris" and "pti". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pris" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pti" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #279,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pris" and "pti" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pio vs pti". 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 #279,864 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