impression
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "impression", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "impression" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "impression" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
impression is aEnglishnoun. It means: The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another. Pronounced /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/. It ranks #3,950 in English word frequency. Often confused with impressive and impressions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impression |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for impression is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,950 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for impression, with forms such as "immpression", "imperssion", and "imppression". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impressive", "impressions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French impression, from Latin impressio. Equivalent to impress + -ion. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is impression, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- 2The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- 3A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- 4An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- 5An outward appearance.
- 6A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
- 7The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- 8A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- 9The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- 10set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
Etymology
From Old French impression, from Latin impressio. Equivalent to impress + -ion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpression,imperssion,imppression,impresion,impresison,impressino,impressionn,impressoin,imprestion,imprression,imprsesion,imrpession,ipmression,mipression
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Misspelling Variants of "impression"
Frequency rank: #3,950 in English
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