Which to use
“pression” and “pressions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,187
- “pression” frequency rank
- #6,988
- “pressions” frequency rank
- 8175
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pression | pressions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Force appliquée à une unité de surface, ou grandeur scalaire, exercée par un fluide sur une surface, perpendiculairement à celle-ci. | Pluriel de pression. |
Same sound, different letters: pression vs pressions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. pression runs 8 letters (CCVCCVVC) against pressions's 9 (CCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - pression and pressions
This is the hard kind. pression and pressions are pronounced identically (\pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “pression” sits inside “pressions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8175, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pression is recorded at frequency rank #1,187, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. pressions is at rank #6,988, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 8175, this pair ranks #420,899 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of pression vs pressions
Shared letters: einoprs. Private to "pression": -. Private to "pressions": -.
"pression" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVVC · "pressions" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "pression" and "pressions" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "pression" or "pressions"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "pression" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pressions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #420,899 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pression" and "pressions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prenions vs pressions". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #420,899 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.