pressent
\pʁɛs\
The verdict
“pressent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,333
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de presser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressent · pressent · French
pressent · rank #24,333 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,333
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poneys
Nearest frequency peer: poneys (-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 « pressent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pneumatique
pneumatique
75,671 corpus weight
- pointues
pointues
75,670 corpus weight
- poneys
poneys
75,669 corpus weight
- pressent
pressent
75,668 corpus weight
- professionn…
professionnellement
75,666 corpus weight
- programmés
programmés
75,665 corpus weight
What this shows « pressent » 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 | pressent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pressent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pressent (IPA \pʁɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,333 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pressent, with forms such as "perssent", "ppressent", and "presesnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "presser", "pressés", "prêtent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pressent, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de presser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de presser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pressent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce soir, ils ne se pressent pas les michés. Pourtant il fait beau, pas trop chaud avec ce vent, et zieutez-moi ce ciel plein d’étoiles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perssent
- ppressent
- presesnt
- pressennt
- pressentt
- pressetn
- pressnet
- prressent
- prsesent
- rpessent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pressent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pressent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).