presque sûr
\pʁɛs.kə syʁ\
The verdict
“presque sûr” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dont la probabilité est égale à 1, même si le nombre des évènements qui ne satisfont pas la condition n’est pas zéro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-presque-sur · presque sûr · French
presque sûr · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | presque sûr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.kə syʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “presque sûr” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
presque sûr is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɛs.kə syʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dont la probabilité est égale à 1, même si le nombre des évènements qui ne satisfont pas la condition n’est pas zéro.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for presque sûr, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 presque sûr, spelled P-R-E-S-Q-U-E- -S-Û-R.
Definition
- 1Dont la probabilité est égale à 1, même si le nombre des évènements qui ne satisfont pas la condition n’est pas zéro.
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