caressent
\ka.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“caressent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,125 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,125
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe caresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caressent · caressent · French
caressent · rank #62,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,125
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnavalesque
Nearest frequency peer: carnavalesque (+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 « caressent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calumet
calumet
37,880 corpus weight
- canneberges
canneberges
37,878 corpus weight
- caressent
caressent
37,876 corpus weight
- carnavalesq…
carnavalesque
37,875 corpus weight
- carpette
carpette
37,874 corpus weight
- cathartique
cathartique
37,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caressent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caressent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caressent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caressent is uncommon French at frequency #62,125 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
caressent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 caressent, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe caresser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe caresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caressent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les débutants, les bas-bleus, les actrices qui commencent et celles qui finissent leur carrière, auteurs et libraires caressent ou choyent ces plumes à tout faire.
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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