press

/[ˈprɛsː]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,549

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

press is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prensa. Instrumento que se usa para prensar. Pronounced [ˈprɛsː]. It ranks #5,549 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pues and pros.

Key facts for press
PropertyValue
Headwordpress
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈprɛsː]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,549
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of press in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for press is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈprɛsː]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,549 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Prensa. Instrumento que se usa para prensar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for press, with forms such as "perss", "ppress", and "pres". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pues", "pros", "prey", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is press, spelled P-R-E-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prensa. Instrumento que se usa para prensar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: perss,ppress,pres,prress,prses,rpess

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for press

Misspelling Variants of "press"

perss5ppress6pres4prress6prses5rpess5
Misspelling Variants of "press"

Frequency rank: #5,549 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "press"?
"press" is spelled P-R-E-S-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈprɛsː].
What does "press" mean?
As a noun, "press" means: Prensa. Instrumento que se usa para prensar.
What words are commonly confused with "press"?
"press" is commonly confused with "pues", "pros", "prey". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "press"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "press" is [ˈprɛsː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "press" come from?
"press" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.