pied presseur
The verdict
“pied presseur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dans une machine à coudre, pièce qui maintient le tissu et entre les branches de laquelle passe l’aiguille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pied presseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje pʁɛ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pied presseur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pied presseur is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pje pʁɛ.sœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans une machine à coudre, pièce qui maintient le tissu et entre les branches de laquelle passe l’aiguille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pied presseur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pied presseur, spelled P-I-E-D- -P-R-E-S-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans une machine à coudre, pièce qui maintient le tissu et entre les branches de laquelle passe l’aiguille.
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Using “pied presseur”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-E-D- -P-R-E-S-S-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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