adressent

\a.dʁɛs\

/\a.dʁɛs\/ verb

The verdict

“adressent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,537. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,537
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adresser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adressent · adressent · French

adressent · rank #16,537 · 12 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,537
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adoptés

Nearest frequency peer: adoptés (-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 « adressent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « adressent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adressent vs adresser
78% similar
adressent vs adresses
78% similar
adressent vs adressez
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adressent
PropertyValue
Headwordadressent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.dʁɛs\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,537
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adressent »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).adressentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adoptés » (#16,536), « affectent » (#16,538), « administrer » (#16,535). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adressent » est au #16,537. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around adressent (IPA \a.dʁɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,537 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adressent, with forms such as "addressent", "aderssent", and "adresent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "adresser", "adresses", "adressez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adressent, spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adresser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe adresser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adressent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De quelles extravagantes hiperboles nos engendreurs d’épithalames, n’enflent-ils pas les hymnes qu’ils adressent à la plus mince épouseuse, qui se déconcubine ; si au bout de quatre mois sa grossesse présente une maturité peu sacramentelle ?
  2. Ceux-ci ne s’adressent plus guère (et encore, très modérément) qu’aux déclinaisons plus ou moins élégantes du vocable, du genre (sans jeu de mot) « avez-vous suffisamment genrisé les variables de votre enquête ? », que Thérèse a elle-même plus tendance à tancer qu’à favoriser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addressent
  • aderssent
  • adresent
  • adresesnt
  • adressennt
  • adressentt
  • adressetn
  • adressnet
  • adrressent
  • adrsesent
  • ardessent
  • daressent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adressent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

addressent1aderssent2adresent1adresesnt2adressennt1adressentt1adressetn2adressnet2
Edit distance from "adressent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adressent"?
"adressent" is spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dʁɛs\.
What does "adressent" mean?
As a verb, "adressent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adresser.
What words are commonly confused with "adressent"?
"adressent" is commonly confused with "adresser", "adresses", "adressez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adressent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adressent" is \a.dʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adressent" come from?
"adressent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adressent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list