pricevsproleWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“price” and “prole” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#10,425
“price” frequency rank
#30,688
“prole” frequency rank
41113
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature price prole
Definition preço filhos; crianças; descendentes

Letter map: price vs prole

Shared letters muted; letters that set price and prole apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
price
5 ch
prole

Spelling & dictionary notes on price vs prole

price and prole are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41113, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

price is recorded at frequency rank #10,425, classified as anoun, pronounced /pɹaɪs/. prole is at rank #30,688, tagged as anoun.

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 41113, this pair ranks #24,878 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of price vs prole

Shared letters: epr. Private to "price": ci. Private to "prole": lo.

"price" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "prole" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pricepirce · pprice · prcie · pricce · priec · prrice · rpice
  • proleporle · pprole · prloe · proel · prolle · prrole · rpole

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "price" for "prole" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "price" vs "prole" - which ranks higher?
"price" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,425 in our Portuguese list, against #30,688 for "prole". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "price" and "prole". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "price" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "prole" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,878 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "price" and "prole" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pale vs prole". 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 #24,878 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list