adresses

/\a.dʁɛs\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,781

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

adresses is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de adresse. Pronounced \a.dʁɛs\. It ranks #7,781 in French word frequency. Often confused with agresse and agresser.

Key facts for adresses
PropertyValue
Headwordadresses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.dʁɛs\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,781
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adresses in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for adresses is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,781 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de adresse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for adresses, with forms such as "addresses", "adersses", and "adresess". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "agresse", "agresser", "agressée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is adresses, spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de adresse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addresses,adersses,adresess,adressess,adressse,adrresses,adrseses,ardesses,daresses

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adresses

Misspelling Variants of "adresses"

addresses9adersses8adresess8adressess9adressse8adrresses9adrseses8ardesses8
Misspelling Variants of "adresses"

Frequency rank: #7,781 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adresses"?
"adresses" is spelled A-D-R-E-S-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dʁɛs\.
What does "adresses" mean?
As a noun, "adresses" means: Pluriel de adresse.
What words are commonly confused with "adresses"?
"adresses" is commonly confused with "agresse", "agresser", "agressée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adresses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adresses" is \a.dʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adresses" come from?
"adresses" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.