presque sûr
\pʁɛs.kə syʁ\
The verdict
“presque sûr” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- 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.
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for presque sûr is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛs.kə syʁ\. 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: "Dont la probabilité est égale à 1, même si le nombre des évènements qui ne satisfont pas la condition n’est pas zéro.".
No misspelling variants are generated for presque sûr 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 presque sûr, spelled P-R-E-S-Q-U-E- -S-Û-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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Using “presque sûr”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-S-Q-U-E- -S-Û-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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