Presse
[ˈpʁɛsə]
The verdict
“Presse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,780
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät, das zum Pressen dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-presse · Presse · German
Presse · rank #1,780 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,780
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Not
Nearest frequency peer: Not (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Presse“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mama
Mama
98,223 corpus weight
- Not
Not
98,222 corpus weight
- Presse
Presse
98,221 corpus weight
- Produktion
Produktion
98,220 corpus weight
- Radio
Radio
98,219 corpus weight
- reisen
reisen
98,218 corpus weight
What this shows „Presse“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Presse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʁɛsə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Presse“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Presse (IPA [ˈpʁɛsə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,780 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Presse, with forms such as "persse", "ppresse", and "prese". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Prise", "presst", "Pressen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Presse, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Gerät, das zum Pressen dient
- 2Gesamtheit der Zeitungen und Zeitschriften sowie deren Mitarbeiter und Angestellte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Presse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„So kauften die Idealisten 1995 eine kleine Presse, mit der sie eigene Äpfel verflüssigten.“ (Internetbeleg)
„Alle halfen sich gegenseitig, die Presse war ununterbrochen im Einsatz und wir füllten Fass um Fass.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- persse
- ppresse
- prese
- preses
- preße
- prresse
- prsese
- rpesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Presse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Presse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).