pression

\pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\

/\pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“pression” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,187
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Force appliquée à une unité de surface, ou grandeur scalaire, exercée par un fluide sur une surface, perpendiculairement à celle-ci.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pression · pression · French

pression · rank #1,187 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,187
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH ouvrir

Nearest frequency peer: ouvrir (-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 « pression »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pression » 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).

pression vs Preston
63% similar
pression vs Prussien
63% similar
pression vs pressions
89% similar

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

Key facts for pression
PropertyValue
Headwordpression
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,187
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pression »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ouvrir » (#1,186), « puissance » (#1,188), « Marine » (#1,185). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pression » est au #1,187. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pression (IPA \pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,187 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pression, with forms such as "perssion", "ppression", and "presion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Preston", "Prussien", "pressions", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pression, spelled P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Force appliquée à une unité de surface, ou grandeur scalaire, exercée par un fluide sur une surface, perpendiculairement à celle-ci.
  2. 2
    Action de presser.
  3. 3
    Contrainte morale destinée à convaincre ou faire agir.
  4. 4
    Bière servie à la tireuse, sous une pression de gaz.
  5. 5
    Verre d’une telle bière.
  6. 6
    Harcèlement de l’adversaire réduit à la défensive.
  7. 7
    Marquage serré de l’adversaire en possession du ballon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La formation du pétrole par le métamorphisme du sapropel est due à la chaleur et à la pression, et, peut-être, à la pression seule : mais ce phénomène géologique doit encore être étudié.
  2. Dans le Point-d’Interrogation, […], nous avons toujours quelque chose à faire. […]. Il y a le manomètre de pression d’huile et de pression d’essence à contrôler.

Synonyms

contrainteforceinsistance

This word in other languages

pressure(English)presión(Español)Druck(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perssion
  • ppression
  • presion
  • presison
  • pressino
  • pressionn
  • pressoin
  • prression
  • prsesion
  • rpession

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pression - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

perssion2ppression1presion1presison2pressino2pressionn1pressoin2prression1
Edit distance from "pression"

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 "pression"?
"pression" is spelled P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\.
What does "pression" mean?
As a noun, "pression" means: Force appliquée à une unité de surface, ou grandeur scalaire, exercée par un fluide sur une surface, perpendiculairement à celle-ci.
What words are commonly confused with "pression"?
"pression" is commonly confused with "Preston", "Prussien", "pressions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pression"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pression" is \pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pression" come from?
"pression" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list