adressais
\a.dʁe.sɛ\
The verdict
“adressais” is uncommon French (frequency #72,887 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,887
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe adresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adressais · adressais · French
adressais · rank #72,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,887
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adressage
Nearest frequency peer: adressage (-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 « adressais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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acérés
27,118 corpus weight
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27,117 corpus weight
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adhérez
27,116 corpus weight
- adressage
adressage
27,115 corpus weight
- adressais
adressais
27,114 corpus weight
- affranchiss…
affranchissant
27,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adressais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adressais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.dʁe.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adressais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adressais is uncommon French at frequency #72,887 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.dʁe.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
adressais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 adressais, spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe adresser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe adresser.
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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