princesse
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,441
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
princesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fille du roi ou du souverain régnant équivalent. Pronounced \pʁɛ̃.sɛs\. It ranks #2,441 in French word frequency. Often confused with princesses and princes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | princesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.sɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for princesse is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ̃.sɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,441 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for princesse, with forms such as "pirncesse", "pprincesse", and "pricnesse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "princesses", "princes", "princess", 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 princesse, spelled P-R-I-N-C-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fille du roi ou du souverain régnant équivalent.
- 2Fille et petite-fille du souverain ou de la souveraine.
- 3Épouse d’un prince.
- 4Souveraine d’une principauté.
- 5Celle qui est la meilleure dans son genre.
- 6Celle qui a de telles prétentions ou de telles exigences qu’on la compare à une princesse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirncesse,pprincesse,pricnesse,princcesse,princese,princeses,princsese,prinecsse,prinncesse,prnicesse,prrincesse,rpincesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for princesse
Misspelling Variants of "princesse"
Frequency rank: #2,441 in French
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