priséesvsprisésTell them apart

Quick tell: prisées is a noun, prisés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#43,611
“prisées” frequency rank
#37,979
“prisés” frequency rank
81590
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature prisées prisés
Definition Pluriel de prisée. Masculin pluriel de prisé.

Same sound, different letters: prisées vs prisés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. prisées runs 7 letters (CCVCVVC) against prisés's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
prisées
6 ch
prisés

Same sound, different spelling - prisées / prisés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: prisées and prisés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pʁi.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81590, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

prisées is recorded at frequency rank #43,611, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.ze\. 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 81590, this pair ranks #18,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of prisées vs prisés

Shared letters: iprsé. Private to "prisées": e. Private to "prisés": -.

"prisées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC  ·  "prisés" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "prisées" for "prisés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "prisées" is a noun and "prisés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "prisées" or "prisés" show up more?
"prisés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,979 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

You've separated the homophone pair "prisées" / "prisés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "prisées" 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 #18,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "prisées" and "prisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "priée vs prisées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #18,426 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