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pres

/pɹiːz/noun, verb

pres is spelled P-R-E-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pres means “plural of pre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pres is pres or pres's.

How many letters and syllables are in pres?

Letters4: P-R-E-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pres?

Pres appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce pres?

  • /pɹiːz/

As a noun (“Clipping of presentation”): /pɹɛz/.

Pres has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with pres?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pres.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: reps, pers, resp.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of pres

  • præs.
  • pres's plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pres mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pre (a form of pre)

  2. 2

    Clipping of presentation.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of present.

  4. 4

    AustraliaslangAbbreviation of pregames.

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of pre. (a form of pre)

adjective

as Pres
  1. 1

    President (used as a title written before a president's name)

noun

as Pres
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of preserve.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of preservation.

noun

as PRES
  1. 1

    Acronym of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does pres come from?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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