pressentait
\pʁɛ.sɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“pressentait” is uncommon French (frequency #85,157 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,157
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de pressentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressentait · pressentait · French
pressentait · rank #85,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,157
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pressa
Nearest frequency peer: pressa (-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 « pressentait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- presbytérien
presbytérien
14,847 corpus weight
- presbytérie…
presbytériens
14,846 corpus weight
- pressa
pressa
14,845 corpus weight
- pressentait
pressentait
14,844 corpus weight
- pressentime…
pressentiments
14,843 corpus weight
- privilégiait
privilégiait
14,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pressentait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pressentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pressentait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pressentait is uncommon French at frequency #85,157 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de pressentir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pressentait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pressentait, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de pressentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pressentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Animée par ses disettes, la ville d’Issoudun pressentait un combat entre ces personnages qui, remarquez-le, se méprisaient mutuellement.
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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