presser
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,037
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
presser is aFrenchverb. It means: Exercer une pression ; serrer plus ou moins fort. Pronounced \pʁe.se\. Often confused with prêter and Prusse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | presser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for presser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,037 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for presser, with forms such as "persser", "ppresser", and "preser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prêter", "Prusse", "pressés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is presser, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exercer une pression ; serrer plus ou moins fort.
- 2Exprimer le jus d’un fruit, le liquide de quelque chose.
- 3Utiliser une presse ou un pressoir.
- 4Appuyer contre ; peser sur.
- 5Hâter ; précipiter.
- 6Se hâter, faire avancer une affaire.
- 7Être urgent ; ne souffrir aucun délai.
- 8Se serrer les uns contre les autres.
- 9Se dépêcher, se hâter.
- 10Insister ; pousser à faire quelque chose.
- 11Poursuivre sans relâche, continuer d’attaquer avec ardeur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: persser,ppresser,preser,presesr,presserr,pressre,prresser,prseser,rpesser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "presser"
Frequency rank: #13,037 in French
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