caressa
\ka.ʁɛ.sa\
The verdict
“caressa” is uncommon French (frequency #66,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,566
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe caresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caressa · caressa · French
caressa · rank #66,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,566
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cardamome
Nearest frequency peer: cardamome (-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 « caressa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cador
cador
33,440 corpus weight
- canicules
canicules
33,438 corpus weight
- cardamome
cardamome
33,436 corpus weight
- caressa
caressa
33,435 corpus weight
- caribéenne
caribéenne
33,433 corpus weight
- cartables
cartables
33,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caressa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caressa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛ.sa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caressa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caressa is uncommon French at frequency #66,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁɛ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe caresser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caressa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is caressa, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe caresser.
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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