Adecco
\a.dɛ.ko\
The verdict
“Adecco” is uncommon French (frequency #56,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,394
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe franco-suisse spécialisé dans l’intérim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adecco · Adecco · French
Adecco · rank #56,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,394
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH additive
Nearest frequency peer: additive (-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 « Adecco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accélérés
accélérés
43,610 corpus weight
- additive
additive
43,608 corpus weight
- Adecco
Adecco
43,607 corpus weight
- agaçante
agaçante
43,606 corpus weight
- aggravantes
aggravantes
43,605 corpus weight
- alarmants
alarmants
43,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Adecco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adecco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.dɛ.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Adecco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Adecco is uncommon French at frequency #56,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.dɛ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe franco-suisse spécialisé dans l’intérim.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Adecco in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Adecco, spelled A-D-E-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1Groupe franco-suisse spécialisé dans l’intérim.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adecco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En moins de cinq ans, la start-up a conquis 1 % d’un marché toujours dominé par les géants du secteur, comme Manpower, Adecco ou Randstad.
Des centaines d’intérimaires ont été victimes de vols, suite au piratage de l’agence Adecco, ont annoncé des membres ce mercredi 9 novembre.
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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