précession
\pʁe.sɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“précession” is uncommon French (frequency #68,575 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,575
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement de l’axe d’un corps en rotation sous l’effet d’un couple perpendiculaire à cet axe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-precession · précession · French
précession · rank #68,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,575
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH provocantes
Nearest frequency peer: provocantes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « précession »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prototypage
prototypage
31,429 corpus weight
- provocantes
provocantes
31,427 corpus weight
- précession
précession
31,426 corpus weight
- prédatrice
prédatrice
31,425 corpus weight
- prédications
prédications
31,424 corpus weight
- prédéterminé
prédéterminé
31,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « précession » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | précession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.sɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « précession » en français
Rare enough to double-check
précession is uncommon French at frequency #68,575 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mouvement de l’axe d’un corps en rotation sous l’effet d’un couple perpendiculaire à cet axe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for précession in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is précession, spelled P-R-É-C-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mouvement de l’axe d’un corps en rotation sous l’effet d’un couple perpendiculaire à cet axe.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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