admires
\ad.miʁ\
The verdict
“admires” is uncommon French (frequency #97,626 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,626
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe admirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-admires · admires · French
admires · rank #97,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,626
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adhérences
Nearest frequency peer: adhérences (-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 « admires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adar
adar
2,379 corpus weight
- addy
addy
2,377 corpus weight
- adhérences
adhérences
2,376 corpus weight
- admires
admires
2,375 corpus weight
- adopt
adopt
2,374 corpus weight
- adoucissent
adoucissent
2,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « admires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ad.miʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « admires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
admires is uncommon French at frequency #97,626 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ad.miʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for admires, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 admires, spelled A-D-M-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe admirer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe admirer.
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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