peser
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,751
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
peser is aFrenchverb. It means: Examiner la pesanteur d’une chose, la rapporter à un poids déterminé. Pronounced \pə.ze\. It ranks #8,751 in French word frequency. Often confused with peur and pose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pə.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peser is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,751 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for peser, with forms such as "epser", "peesr", and "peserr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "peur", "pose", "pète", 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 French form is peser, spelled P-E-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Examiner la pesanteur d’une chose, la rapporter à un poids déterminé.
- 2Mesurer la masse volumique d’un liquide pour déterminer sa concentration en un élément particulier.
- 3Apprécier, estimer la valeur d’une chose.
- 4Examiner attentivement une chose, pour en connaître le fort et le faible.
- 5Avoir un certain poids.
- 6Occuper un certain espace de stockage, en parlant d'un fichier.
- 7Avoir une certaine valeur.
- 8Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 9Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 10Appuyer fortement sur une chose, faire sentir son poids.
- 11Appuyer fortement sur une chose, faire sentir son poids.
- 12…
- 13…
- 14…
- 15Exercer sur la conscience un chagrin, un ressentiment, un repentir.
- 16Causer de la peine, de l’inquiétude ou de l’embarras.
- 17Demeurer plus longtemps, insister plus longtemps.
- 18Exercer sur quelqu’un de l’influence, une sorte de contrainte morale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epser,peesr,peserr,pesre,pesser,ppeser,pseer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peser
Misspelling Variants of "peser"
Frequency rank: #8,751 in French
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