adressa
\a.dʁe.sa\
The verdict
“adressa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,394. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,394
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe adresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adressa · adressa · French
adressa · rank #34,394 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,394
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH actualiser
Nearest frequency peer: actualiser (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « adressa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- actionnariat
actionnariat
65,610 corpus weight
- activent
activent
65,609 corpus weight
- actualiser
actualiser
65,608 corpus weight
- adressa
adressa
65,607 corpus weight
- affiliée
affiliée
65,606 corpus weight
- agente
agente
65,605 corpus weight
What this shows « adressa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adressa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.dʁe.sa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adressa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around adressa (IPA \a.dʁe.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe adresser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for adressa, with forms such as "addressa", "aderssa", and "adresa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Adresse", "agresse", "adresser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 adressa, spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe adresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adressa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La conversation fut d’abord assez triste, car l’hôte et ses enfants ne répondaient que par oui et par non, et semblaient bouder ; mais Gaspard, qui avait de l’esprit, s’adressa à la fille de la maison, lui dit qu’elle était jolie, et, pour mieux la muguetter, se plaça vis-à-vis d’elle, derrière le père, assis lui-même, entre ses deux fils, qui riaient d’u…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addressa
- aderssa
- adresa
- adresas
- adrressa
- adrsesa
- ardessa
- daressa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adressa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).