bench press
/ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/
"bench-press" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bench press” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bench-press · bench press · English
bench press · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bench press |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bench press” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bench press is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bench press, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bench press, spelled B-E-N-C-H- -P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bench press appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.