fessait
\fɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“fessait” is uncommon French (frequency #83,872 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,872
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fessait · fessait · French
fessait · rank #83,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ficelés
Nearest frequency peer: ficelés (+2 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 « fessait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Farges
Farges
16,135 corpus weight
- fermentatio…
fermentations
16,132 corpus weight
- fessait
fessait
16,129 corpus weight
- ficelés
ficelés
16,127 corpus weight
- fichais
fichais
16,126 corpus weight
- fidélités
fidélités
16,124 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fessait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fessait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fessait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fessait is uncommon French at frequency #83,872 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fesser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fessait, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fessait, spelled F-E-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fesser.
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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