adoucissent
\a.du.sis\
The verdict
“adoucissent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,628 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,628
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de adoucir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adoucissent · adoucissent · French
adoucissent · rank #97,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,628
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adopt
Nearest frequency peer: adopt (-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 « adoucissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adhérences
adhérences
2,376 corpus weight
- admires
admires
2,375 corpus weight
- adopt
adopt
2,374 corpus weight
- adoucissent
adoucissent
2,373 corpus weight
- affermage
affermage
2,371 corpus weight
- affligeants
affligeants
2,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adoucissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoucissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.du.sis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adoucissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adoucissent is uncommon French at frequency #97,628 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.du.sis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for adoucissent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 adoucissent, spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de adoucir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de adoucir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de adoucir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).