pressentiments
\pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pressentiments” is uncommon French (frequency #85,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pressentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressentiments · pressentiments · French
pressentiments · rank #85,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,158
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pressentait
Nearest frequency peer: pressentait (-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 « pressentiments »
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 « pressentiments » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pressentiments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #85,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pressentiments » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pressentiments is uncommon French at frequency #85,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pressentiment.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pressentiments in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pressentiments, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pressentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pressentiments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous rappelons d’ailleurs le trouble sublime de Newton, quand la marche d’un calcul promet enfin de justifier les pressentiments cachés dans son cœur.
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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