dresses
\dʁɛs\
The verdict
“dresses” is uncommon French (frequency #97,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,876
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dresses · dresses · French
dresses · rank #97,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dri
Nearest frequency peer: dri (+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 « dresses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- douterait
douterait
2,129 corpus weight
- doutée
doutée
2,128 corpus weight
- dramatic
dramatic
2,127 corpus weight
- dresses
dresses
2,125 corpus weight
- dri
dri
2,124 corpus weight
- Dupire
Dupire
2,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dresses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dresses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dresses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dresses is uncommon French at frequency #97,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dresse.".
dresses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dresses, spelled D-R-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dresse.
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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