pressé

\pʁe.se\

/\pʁe.se\/ adj

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The verdict

“pressé” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,643
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est empressé, désireux, impatient.

Corpus desk

Index FR-presse · pressé · French

pressé · rank #6,643 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,643
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH ports

Nearest frequency peer: ports (-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 « pressé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pressé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pressé vs prise
50% similar
pressé vs prêts
50% similar
pressé vs prêté
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pressé
PropertyValue
Headwordpressé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁe.se\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,643
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pressé »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pressése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ports » (#6,642), « productivité » (#6,644), « planches » (#6,641). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pressé » est au #6,643. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pressé (IPA \pʁe.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,643 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pressé, with forms such as "perssé", "ppressé", and "presse". 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, "prise", "prêts", "prêté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pressé, spelled P-R-E-S-S-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est empressé, désireux, impatient.
  2. 2
    Se dit de personnes ou de choses serrées les unes contre les autres.
  3. 3
    En manque.
  4. 4
    Qui a hâte.
  5. 5
    Pressant.
  6. 6
    Comprimé de façon à en ressortir le jus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pressé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ah ! il ne fait pas bon être trop pressé. Il faut n'avoir rien à faire... que le pied de grue pendant des heures, en attendant son tour.
  2. Le cocher fouetta ses chevaux, et nous traversâmes les rangs pressés des spectateurs au bruit de mille cris peu courtois pour ceux qui me tenaient compagnie dans la voiture.

This word in other languages

keen(English)eilig(Deutsch)impaciente(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perssé
  • ppressé
  • presse
  • presé
  • presés
  • prressé
  • prsesé
  • rpessé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pressé - 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.

perssé2ppressé1presse1presé1presés2prressé1prsesé2rpessé2
Edit distance from "pressé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pressé"?
"pressé" is spelled P-R-E-S-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁe.se\.
What does "pressé" mean?
As an adjective, "pressé" means: Qui est empressé, désireux, impatient.
What words are commonly confused with "pressé"?
"pressé" is commonly confused with "prise", "prêts", "prêté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pressé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pressé" is \pʁe.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pressé" come from?
"pressé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pressé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rachat#6,648organe#6,636revers#6,652Munich#6,633

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

ports8 variantsmettait8 variantshumide8 variantstimide8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list