press
\pʁɛs\
The verdict
“press” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de pressen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-press · press · French
press · rank #6,731 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,731
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prenons
Nearest frequency peer: prenons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « press »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- PDG
PDG
93,273 corpus weight
- posent
posent
93,272 corpus weight
- prenons
prenons
93,271 corpus weight
- press
press
93,270 corpus weight
- privilège
privilège
93,269 corpus weight
- profitez
profitez
93,268 corpus weight
What this shows « press » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | press |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « press »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around press (IPA \pʁɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,731 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de pressen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for press, with forms such as "perss", "ppress", and "prress". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pris", "pros", "pues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is press, spelled P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de pressen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perss
- ppress
- prress
- prses
- rpess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of press - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).