serrai
\sɛ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“serrai” is uncommon French (frequency #73,550 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,550
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe serrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serrai · serrai · French
serrai · rank #73,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH selling
Nearest frequency peer: selling (-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 « serrai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schmit
Schmit
26,455 corpus weight
- scénaristiq…
scénaristiques
26,453 corpus weight
- selling
selling
26,452 corpus weight
- serrai
serrai
26,451 corpus weight
- seventeen
seventeen
26,449 corpus weight
- SGC
SGC
26,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serrai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serrai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serrai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serrai is uncommon French at frequency #73,550 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe serrer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for serrai, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is serrai, spelled S-E-R-R-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe serrer.
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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