pressaient
\pʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“pressaient” is uncommon French (frequency #61,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de presser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressaient · pressaient · French
pressaient · rank #61,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,798
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prescripteurs
Nearest frequency peer: prescripteurs (-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 « pressaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poussons
poussons
38,206 corpus weight
- pren
pren
38,205 corpus weight
- prescripteu…
prescripteurs
38,204 corpus weight
- pressaient
pressaient
38,203 corpus weight
- productivis…
productiviste
38,202 corpus weight
- produisirent
produisirent
38,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pressaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pressaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pressaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pressaient is uncommon French at frequency #61,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de presser.".
pressaient has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pressaient, spelled P-R-E-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de presser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pressaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cent, deux cents personnes se pressaient sur le musoir.
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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