agressant
\a.ɡʁɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“agressant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,836 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,836
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe agresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agressant · agressant · French
agressant · rank #80,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,836
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agissante
Nearest frequency peer: agissante (-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 « agressant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affilés
affilés
19,169 corpus weight
- affinés
affinés
19,168 corpus weight
- agissante
agissante
19,166 corpus weight
- agressant
agressant
19,165 corpus weight
- akademie
akademie
19,164 corpus weight
- akan
akan
19,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agressant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agressant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agressant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agressant is uncommon French at frequency #80,836 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ɡʁɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe agresser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for agressant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 agressant, spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe agresser.
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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