tresser
\tʁe.se\
The verdict
“tresser” is uncommon French (frequency #64,844 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,844
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre, arranger en tresses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tresser · tresser · French
tresser · rank #64,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,844
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transformerait
Nearest frequency peer: transformerait (-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 « tresser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tournay
Tournay
35,160 corpus weight
- transcrite
transcrite
35,159 corpus weight
- transformer…
transformerait
35,158 corpus weight
- tresser
tresser
35,157 corpus weight
- triées
triées
35,156 corpus weight
- troquet
troquet
35,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tresser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tresser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tresser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tresser is uncommon French at frequency #64,844 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁe.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre, arranger en tresses.".
tresser has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tresser, spelled T-R-E-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre, arranger en tresses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tresser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tresser des cheveux.
Tresser du fil, de la soie.
This word in other languages
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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