Presle
\pʁɛl\
The verdict
“Presle” is uncommon French (frequency #97,306 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-presle · Presle · French
Presle · rank #97,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,306
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prescrive
Nearest frequency peer: prescrive (-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 « Presle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pousserai
pousserai
2,701 corpus weight
- prefer
prefer
2,699 corpus weight
- prescrive
prescrive
2,696 corpus weight
- Presle
Presle
2,695 corpus weight
- professait
professait
2,691 corpus weight
- professant
professant
2,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Presle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Presle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Presle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Presle is uncommon French at frequency #97,306 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Presle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Presle, spelled P-R-E-S-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.
- 2Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Saône intégrée dans la commune de Dampierre-sur-Linotte.
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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