Addams
The verdict
“Addams” is uncommon French (frequency #59,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,051
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-addams · Addams · French
Addams · rank #59,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,051
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achoppement
Nearest frequency peer: achoppement (-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 « Addams »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accotement
accotement
40,953 corpus weight
- accréditée
accréditée
40,952 corpus weight
- achoppement
achoppement
40,951 corpus weight
- Addams
Addams
40,950 corpus weight
- addictive
addictive
40,949 corpus weight
- Adolfo
Adolfo
40,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Addams » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Addams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Addams » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Addams is uncommon French at frequency #59,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Addams has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Addams, spelled A-D-D-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Addams appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le créateur s’est laissé convaincre par les showrunneurs Alfred Gough et Miles Millar de diriger quatre épisodes de la série qui redonne vie à l’univers de l’une de ses idoles : l’artiste Charles « Chas » Addams (1912-1988), le créateur de La Famille Addams, sur laquelle est basée la série.
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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