adoucissant
\a.du.si.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“adoucissant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,054 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est capable de diminuer la douleur ou l’irritation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adoucissant · adoucissant · French
adoucissant · rank #59,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,054
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Adolfo
Nearest frequency peer: Adolfo (-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 « adoucissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Addams
Addams
40,950 corpus weight
- addictive
addictive
40,949 corpus weight
- Adolfo
Adolfo
40,948 corpus weight
- adoucissant
adoucissant
40,947 corpus weight
- aigrettes
aigrettes
40,946 corpus weight
- ajustant
ajustant
40,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adoucissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoucissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.du.si.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adoucissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adoucissant is uncommon French at frequency #59,054 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.du.si.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est capable de diminuer la douleur ou l’irritation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for adoucissant, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is adoucissant, spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est capable de diminuer la douleur ou l’irritation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adoucissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me rassura immédiatement en me précisant que je n'avais qu'un problème de préservatif inadapté à mes attributs. […]. Il me fit une ordonnance et me prescrivit une pommade adoucissante et des préservatifs king size.
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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