fessées
\fɛ.se\
The verdict
“fessées” is uncommon French (frequency #52,689 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,689
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fessée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fessees · fessées · French
fessées · rank #52,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,689
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fastidieuse
Nearest frequency peer: fastidieuse (-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 « fessées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- facilitateur
facilitateur
47,317 corpus weight
- falling
falling
47,316 corpus weight
- fastidieuse
fastidieuse
47,313 corpus weight
- fessées
fessées
47,312 corpus weight
- FFT
FFT
47,310 corpus weight
- filoche
filoche
47,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fessées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fessées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fessées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fessées is uncommon French at frequency #52,689 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fessée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fessées in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fessées, spelled F-E-S-S-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fessée.
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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