price

//pɹaɪs// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,425

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

price is aPortuguesenoun. It means: preço Pronounced /pɹaɪs/. Often confused with primo and prove.

Key facts for price
PropertyValue
Headwordprice
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/pɹaɪs/
Letters5
Frequency rank#10,425
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of price in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for price is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɹaɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #10,425 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "preço".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for price, with forms such as "pirce", "pprice", and "prcie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "primo", "prove", "print", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is price, spelled P-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    preço

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirce,pprice,prcie,pricce,priec,prrice,rpice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for price

Misspelling Variants of "price"

pirce5pprice6prcie5pricce6priec5prrice6rpice5
Misspelling Variants of "price"

Frequency rank: #10,425 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "price"?
"price" is spelled P-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is /pɹaɪs/.
What does "price" mean?
As a noun, "price" means: preço
What words are commonly confused with "price"?
"price" is commonly confused with "primo", "prove", "print". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "price"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "price" is /pɹaɪs/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "price" come from?
"price" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.