admit
\ad.mi\
The verdict
“admit” is uncommon French (frequency #53,739 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,739
- 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 du verbe admettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-admit · admit · French
admit · rank #53,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,739
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH admettez
Nearest frequency peer: admettez (-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 « admit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adjuger
adjuger
46,266 corpus weight
- adjugée
adjugée
46,265 corpus weight
- adjuvant
adjuvant
46,264 corpus weight
- admettez
admettez
46,263 corpus weight
- admit
admit
46,262 corpus weight
- affectait
affectait
46,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « admit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ad.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « admit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
admit is uncommon French at frequency #53,739 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ad.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe admettre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for admit, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is admit, spelled A-D-M-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe admettre.
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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