agrandissant

\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\

/\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agrandissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for agrandissant
PropertyValue
Headwordagrandissant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#73,687
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « agrandissant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agrandissanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « agnosticisme » (#73,686), « aguerrie » (#73,688), « agapes » (#73,685). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agrandissant » est au #73,687. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui agrandit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how agrandissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agrandissant"?
"agrandissant" is spelled A-G-R-A-N-D-I-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\.
What does "agrandissant" mean?
As an adjective, "agrandissant" means: Qui agrandit.
How do you pronounce "agrandissant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agrandissant" is \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agrandissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list