dressez
\dʁɛ.se\
The verdict
“dressez” is uncommon French (frequency #57,215 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,215
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dressez · dressez · French
dressez · rank #57,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,215
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doctoral
Nearest frequency peer: doctoral (-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 « dressez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diluviennes
diluviennes
42,789 corpus weight
- dissidentes
dissidentes
42,788 corpus weight
- doctoral
doctoral
42,787 corpus weight
- dressez
dressez
42,786 corpus weight
- drôlerie
drôlerie
42,785 corpus weight
- duraient
duraient
42,784 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dressez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dressez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dressez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dressez is uncommon French at frequency #57,215 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʁɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dressez, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dressez, spelled D-R-E-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dresser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de dresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dressez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment de servir, déballez, débridez et dressez; passez à l’étamine le jus égoutté, ajoutez-le à une sauce financière demi-liée, et saucez les perdreaux.
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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