attires
\a.tiʁ\
The verdict
“attires” is uncommon French (frequency #63,534 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,534
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe attirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attires · attires · French
attires · rank #63,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,534
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Audin
Nearest frequency peer: Audin (+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 « attires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- associait
associait
36,470 corpus weight
- astrale
astrale
36,469 corpus weight
- attires
attires
36,467 corpus weight
- Audin
Audin
36,466 corpus weight
- autorégulat…
autorégulation
36,465 corpus weight
- avenger
avenger
36,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attires is uncommon French at frequency #63,534 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for attires in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is attires, spelled A-T-T-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe attirer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe attirer.
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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