adresser

\a.dʁe.se\

/\a.dʁe.se\/ verb

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The verdict

“adresser” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,723
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adresser · adresser · French

adresser · rank #5,723 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,723
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH absent

Nearest frequency peer: absent (-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 « adresser »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adresser » 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).

adresser vs agresse
75% similar
adresser vs adresses
88% similar
adresser vs agresser
88% similar

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

Key facts for adresser
PropertyValue
Headwordadresser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.dʁe.se\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,723
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adresser »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).adresserse 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 « absent » (#5,722), « aimerai » (#5,724), « 2ème » (#5,721). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adresser » est au #5,723. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around adresser (IPA \a.dʁe.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,723 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for adresser, with forms such as "addresser", "adersser", and "adreser". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "agresse", "adresses", "agresser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 adresser, spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu.
  2. 2
    Toucher droit où l’on vise.
  3. 3
    Aller trouver directement quelqu’un, avoir recours à ses services, soit de vive voix, soit par écrit.
  4. 4
    Viser une partie (une adresse) de la mémoire vive d’un ordinateur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. J’implorai avec ferveur la belle image de la Vierge coloriée à laquelle, tous les soirs, avant de me coucher, j’adressais ma prière : […]
  2. En ouvrant la séance, M. Hibon, président sortant, adresse ses remerciements pour le grand honneur, qui, dit-il, fut fait à un amateur de présider les travaux de la Société en 1936, puis il prie M. Allorge de lui succéder au fauteuil présidentiel.

This word in other languages

address(English)enviar(Español)schicken(Deutsch)enviar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addresser
  • adersser
  • adreser
  • adresesr
  • adresserr
  • adressre
  • adrresser
  • adrseser
  • ardesser
  • daresser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adresser - 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.

addresser1adersser2adreser1adresesr2adresserr1adressre2adrresser1adrseser2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adresser"?
"adresser" is spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dʁe.se\.
What does "adresser" mean?
As a verb, "adresser" means: Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu.
What words are commonly confused with "adresser"?
"adresser" is commonly confused with "agresse", "adresses", "agresser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adresser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adresser" is \a.dʁe.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adresser" come from?
"adresser" 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 "adresser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arrivait#5,727Williams#5,716traduire#5,711chouette#5,736

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Égypte10 variantsécoutez10 variantscorriger10 variantsentente10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list