freedom of the press
/ˈfɹiː.dəm əv ðə ˈpɹɛs/
"freedom-of-the-press" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freedom of the 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.
Corpus desk
Index EN-freedom-of-the-press · freedom of the press · English
freedom of the press · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | freedom of the press |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹiː.dəm əv ðə ˈpɹɛs/ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “freedom of the press” in English
Rare enough to double-check
freedom of the press is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɹiː.dəm əv ðə ˈpɹɛs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.".
freedom of the press has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is freedom of the press, spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M- -O-F- -T-H-E- -P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how freedom of the press appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Since the press, commanding the service of every other means of communication, is the common carrier of information, delivering it almost instantly and simultaneously through out a nation, and there is no other carrier a thousandth part so efficient any restriction upon the information it may convey deprives every citizen in some degree of capacity for in…
The term free speech, which appears in this book's subtitle as well as in its text, is used more or less interchangeably with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression to refer to all of the expressive rights guaranteed by the forty-five words of the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. courts.
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.