prize
The verdict
“prize” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #22,762 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #22,762
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que foi dado em premiação
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prize |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prize” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for prize is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #22,762 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for prize, with forms such as "pirze", "pprize", and "priez". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "prove", "prole", "pie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is prize, spelled P-R-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1que foi dado em premiação
- 2que confere premiação
- 3completo, absoluto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirze,pprize,priez,prizze,prrize,przie,rpize
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prize - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prize”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-I-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “prove” - see the side-by-side comparison. prize vs prove
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.