dressait
\dʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“dressait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,218
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dressait · dressait · French
dressait · rank #40,218 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,218
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douloureuseme…
Nearest frequency peer: douloureusement (-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 « dressait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dirigez
dirigez
59,787 corpus weight
- disputant
disputant
59,786 corpus weight
- douloureuse…
douloureusement
59,784 corpus weight
- dressait
dressait
59,783 corpus weight
- Drouet
Drouet
59,782 corpus weight
- débandade
débandade
59,780 corpus weight
What this shows « dressait » 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 | dressait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dressait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dressait (IPA \dʁɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,218 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dresser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dressait, with forms such as "ddressait", "derssait", and "dresait". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dressent", "dressant", "dressage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dressait, spelled D-R-E-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dressait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacques Bernard, soigneusement, réenfournait dans sa poches les pièces d’argent qu’il en avait tirées… puis il prenait son chapeau, dégringolait son escalier, s’enfonçait dans l'atmosphère brumeuse et glaciale, enténébrant la rue tortueuse, où se dressait son logement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddressait
- derssait
- dresait
- dresasit
- dressaitt
- dressati
- dressiat
- drressait
- drsesait
- rdessait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dressait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).