pressentiment

\pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\

/\pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“pressentiment” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,195
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
19
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intuition d'un événement à venir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pressentiment · pressentiment · French

pressentiment · rank #27,195 · 19 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #27,195
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pratiquait

Nearest frequency peer: pratiquait (-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 « pressentiment »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pressentiment » 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).

pressentiment vs présentement
77% similar

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

Key facts for pressentiment
PropertyValue
Headwordpressentiment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#27,195
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pressentiment »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pratiquait » (#27,194), « prient » (#27,196), « prado » (#27,193). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pressentiment » est au #27,195. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around pressentiment (IPA \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,195 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for pressentiment, with forms such as "perssentiment", "ppressentiment", and "presentiment". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "présentement", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pressentiment, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Intuition d'un événement à venir.
  2. 2
    Idée intuitive d'un concept qui sera ou non confirmé plus tard.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Au reste, ses pressentiments ne l’avaient pas trompée, à peine avait-elle fait vingt lieues, que son mari avait été pris d’une fièvre cérébrale.
  2. Les bizarres pressentiments qui avaient si souvent agité Julie se trouvaient tout à coup réalisés.

This word in other languages

presentiment(English)presentimiento(Español)Vorahnung(Deutsch)pressentimento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perssentiment
  • ppressentiment
  • presentiment
  • presesntiment
  • pressenitment
  • pressenntiment
  • pressentiemnt
  • pressentimennt
  • pressentimentt
  • pressentimetn
  • pressentimment
  • pressentimnet
  • pressentmient
  • pressenttiment
  • pressetniment
  • pressnetiment
  • prressentiment
  • prsesentiment
  • rpessentiment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

perssentiment2ppressentiment1presentiment1presesntiment2pressenitment2pressenntiment1pressentiemnt2pressentimennt1
Edit distance from "pressentiment"

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 "pressentiment"?
"pressentiment" is spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\.
What does "pressentiment" mean?
As a noun, "pressentiment" means: Intuition d'un événement à venir.
What words are commonly confused with "pressentiment"?
"pressentiment" is commonly confused with "présentement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pressentiment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pressentiment" is \pʁɛ.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pressentiment" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

foncièrement19 variantsastrologiques19 variantsdestructrice19 variantsconstituants19 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list