caressait
\ka.ʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“caressait” is uncommon French (frequency #53,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,838
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de caresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caressait · caressait · French
caressait · rank #53,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,838
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitainerie
Nearest frequency peer: capitainerie (-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 « caressait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cada
cada
46,167 corpus weight
- cadrée
cadrée
46,166 corpus weight
- campana
campana
46,165 corpus weight
- capitainerie
capitainerie
46,164 corpus weight
- caressait
caressait
46,163 corpus weight
- carrosseries
carrosseries
46,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caressait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caressait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caressait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caressait is uncommon French at frequency #53,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de caresser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caressait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 caressait, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de caresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caressait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Wioletta, émue, caressait doucement la longue tresse châtaine.
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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