serrais
\sɛ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“serrais” is uncommon French (frequency #63,350 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,350
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe serrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serrais · serrais · French
serrais · rank #63,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,350
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semeur
Nearest frequency peer: semeur (-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 « serrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seigneurial…
seigneuriales
36,655 corpus weight
- seizièmes
seizièmes
36,654 corpus weight
- semeur
semeur
36,652 corpus weight
- serrais
serrais
36,651 corpus weight
- seventies
seventies
36,650 corpus weight
- shout
shout
36,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serrais is uncommon French at frequency #63,350 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for serrais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is serrais, spelled S-E-R-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe serrer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait 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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