pressure
\pʁɛ.syʁ\
The verdict
“pressure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante ancienne de présure. Substance animale ou végétale contenant des enzymes et servant à faire coaguler et cailler le lait et à faire du petit lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pressure · pressure · French
pressure · rank #48,120 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,120
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promotionnels
Nearest frequency peer: promotionnels (+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 « pressure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- portante
portante
51,885 corpus weight
- postier
postier
51,884 corpus weight
- pressure
pressure
51,881 corpus weight
- promotionne…
promotionnels
51,880 corpus weight
- protocolaire
protocolaire
51,879 corpus weight
- précédées
précédées
51,878 corpus weight
What this shows « pressure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pressure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pressure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pressure (IPA \pʁɛ.syʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,120 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pressure, with forms such as "perssure", "ppressure", and "pressrue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pressé", "presque", "presser", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pressure, spelled P-R-E-S-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante ancienne de présure. Substance animale ou végétale contenant des enzymes et servant à faire coaguler et cailler le lait et à faire du petit lait.
- 2Liqueur, préparée avec la caillette des veaux et des jeunes animaux ruminants, à l’âge où ils sont encore nourris de lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pressure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
pressure de veau. Lait caillé dans l’estomac des jeunes veaux, qu’on emploie pour faire cailler le lait frais et encore pourvu de sa crème.
Le suede figuier fait prendre le lait, comme la pressure.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perssure
- ppressure
- pressrue
- pressuer
- pressurre
- presure
- presusre
- prressure
- prsesure
- rpessure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pressure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).