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stress

French, noun/stʁɛs/

stress is spelled S-T-R-E-S-S (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,391st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stress is a French masculine noun meaning “stress (emotional pressure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tension exercée sur un matériau”.

What does stress mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestress (emotional pressure)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Tension exercée sur un matériau. 2. Réaction à une agression par un agent extérieur, dont l’intensité dépend à la fois des facteurs internes à l’entité stressée (capacité d’interprétation d’un élément comme stressant) et externes à l’entité stressée (les caractéristiques des agents extérieurs). 3. Sentiment de tension continue causée par une situation inconfortable plus ou moins intense. Nervosité qui en résulte. 4. L’agression en elle-même.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce stress?

  • /stʁɛs/
  • \stʁɛs\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to stress

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is stress in French?

stress appears 23 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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