priséevspriséesTell them apart

Which to use

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

#28,698
“prisée” frequency rank
#43,611
“prisées” frequency rank
72309
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature prisée prisées
Definition Estimation faite d’une chose qui doit être vendue ou inventoriée. Pluriel de prisée.

Same sound, different letters: prisée vs prisées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

6 ch
prisée
7 ch
prisées

Ear matches; page differs - prisée and prisées

This is the hard kind. prisée and prisées are pronounced identically (\pʁi.ze\) 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) - “prisée” sits inside “prisées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72309, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

prisée is recorded at frequency rank #28,698, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.ze\. 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 72309, this pair ranks #44,437 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of prisée vs prisées

Shared letters: eiprsé. Private to "prisée": -. Private to "prisées": -.

"prisée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV  ·  "prisées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "prisée" for "prisées" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\pʁi.ze\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "prisée" or "prisées" show up more?
"prisée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,698 in our French list, against #43,611 for "prisées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"prisée" and "prisées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "prisée" 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 #44,437 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "prisée" and "prisées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "priée vs prisées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #44,437 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