printing
The verdict
“printing” is uncommon French (frequency #64,707 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,707
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-printing · printing · French
printing · rank #64,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,707
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH principles
Nearest frequency peer: principles (-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 « printing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- positiviste
positiviste
35,297 corpus weight
- Praslin
Praslin
35,296 corpus weight
- principles
principles
35,295 corpus weight
- printing
printing
35,294 corpus weight
- priseurs
priseurs
35,293 corpus weight
- probe
probe
35,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « printing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | printing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « printing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
printing is uncommon French at frequency #64,707 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
printing has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is printing, spelled P-R-I-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Impression.
- 2Imprimerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how printing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is the third printing of the second edition of this book.
The manuscript has been proofread twice. It's ready for printing.
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).