adda
\a.da\
The verdict
“adda” is uncommon French (frequency #65,660 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,660
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de adder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adda · adda · French
adda · rank #65,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,660
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acculés
Nearest frequency peer: acculés (-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 « adda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accourt
accourt
34,344 corpus weight
- acculés
acculés
34,342 corpus weight
- adda
adda
34,341 corpus weight
- adsorption
adsorption
34,340 corpus weight
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.da\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adda is uncommon French at frequency #65,660 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de adder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for adda, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is adda, spelled A-D-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de adder.
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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