pressants
\pʁɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pressants” is uncommon French (frequency #55,522 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,522
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pressant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressants · pressants · French
pressants · rank #55,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poznan
Nearest frequency peer: Poznan (-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 « pressants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pourvoyeurs
pourvoyeurs
44,481 corpus weight
- Poznan
Poznan
44,480 corpus weight
- pressants
pressants
44,479 corpus weight
- proclama
proclama
44,478 corpus weight
- procurait
procurait
44,477 corpus weight
- pronos
pronos
44,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pressants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pressants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pressants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pressants is uncommon French at frequency #55,522 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pressant.".
pressants doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pressants, spelled P-R-E-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pressant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pressants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est vrai qu’il ne s’agit encore, avec tous ces organismes ou toutes ces mesures que d’institutions de guerre, dues à la guerre et faites pour résoudre les problèmes pressants de la guerre.
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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