# print

> English word · Adjective · IPA /pɹɪnt/ · frequency rank #2,804

## Definitions
1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

## Etymology
From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

## Easily confused with
- **punt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-punt)
- **Prot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prot)
- **prior** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prior)
- **prize** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prize)
- **prone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prone)
- **privy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-privy)
- **prism** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prism)
- **Prius** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prius)
- **prune** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prune)
- **Priya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-priya)
- **prong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prong)
- **prints** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prints)
- **prying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-prying)
- **pronto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-pronto)
- **purist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-purist)
- **printed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-printed)
- **printer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/print-vs-printer)
- **pin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pin-vs-print)
- **pit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pit-vs-print)
- **pain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pain-vs-print)

## Common misspellings (8)
`pirnt`, `pprint`, `prinnt`, `printt`, `pritn`, `prnit`, `prrint`, `rpint`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/print