agrandissant
\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“agrandissant” is uncommon French (frequency #73,687 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,687
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui agrandit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agrandissant · agrandissant · French
agrandissant · rank #73,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,687
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agnosticisme
Nearest frequency peer: agnosticisme (-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 « agrandissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agapes
agapes
26,316 corpus weight
- agnosticisme
agnosticisme
26,315 corpus weight
- agrandissant
agrandissant
26,314 corpus weight
- aguerrie
aguerrie
26,313 corpus weight
- aicha
aicha
26,312 corpus weight
- Aigoual
Aigoual
26,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agrandissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agrandissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agrandissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agrandissant is uncommon French at frequency #73,687 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui agrandit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for agrandissant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is agrandissant, spelled A-G-R-A-N-D-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui agrandit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agrandissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà avec quel bagage d’idées larges, utiles, salutaires, agrandissantes, les députés de la Noblesse et du Clergé devaient partir pour ces États-Généraux, centre politique où ils rencontrèrent les révolutionnaires qui jetèrent les hauts cris au lieu d’accomplir de hauts faits, parlèrent beaucoup de progrès et menacaient ^([sic : menaçaient]) d’arrêter to…
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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