pressentiment
French, noun\pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
pressentiment is spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pressentiment is a French masculine noun meaning “presentiment; hunch; premonition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Intuition d'un événement à venir”.
What does pressentiment mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepresentiment; hunch; premonition
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Intuition d'un événement à venir. 2. Idée intuitive d'un concept qui sera ou non confirmé plus tard.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pressentiment
- pressentiments plural
- présentiment
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pressentiment?
- \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
- \pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pressentiment
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pressentiment in French?
pressentiment appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).