agresser
\a.ɡʁe.se\
The verdict
“agresser” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique ou sexuelle d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agresser · agresser · French
agresser · rank #13,504 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,504
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affirmations
Nearest frequency peer: affirmations (-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 « agresser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Abel
Abel
86,500 corpus weight
- accru
accru
86,499 corpus weight
- affirmations
affirmations
86,498 corpus weight
- agresser
agresser
86,497 corpus weight
- aisée
aisée
86,496 corpus weight
- amenée
amenée
86,495 corpus weight
What this shows « agresser » 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 | agresser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agresser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around agresser (IPA \a.ɡʁe.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,504 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique ou sexuelle d’une personne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agresser, with forms such as "agersser", "aggresser", and "agreser". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "agressif", "agressés", "agresseur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is agresser, spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique ou sexuelle d’une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agresser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout fondait en bouillie de camelottes, d’espérances et de comptes et dans la fièvre aussi, moite elle aussi. Cette pluie tellement dense qu’on en avait la bouche fermée quand elle vous agressait comme par un bâillon tiède.
La violence, y compris lorsqu’elle est commise par le sexe, est un acte de négation par la personne qui le commet de l’altérité et de la légitimité de la personne qu’elle agresse. La violence est un instrument de domination incompatible avec la relation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agersser
- aggresser
- agreser
- agresesr
- agresserr
- agressre
- agrresser
- agrseser
- argesser
- garesser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agresser - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).