allaitant
\a.lɛ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“allaitant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,536 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui allaite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allaitant · allaitant · French
allaitant · rank #74,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,536
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Algonquins
Nearest frequency peer: Algonquins (-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 « allaitant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alcoolisati…
alcoolisation
25,468 corpus weight
- aler
aler
25,467 corpus weight
- Algonquins
Algonquins
25,466 corpus weight
- allaitant
allaitant
25,465 corpus weight
- alluviales
alluviales
25,464 corpus weight
- ALN
ALN
25,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allaitant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allaitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.lɛ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allaitant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allaitant is uncommon French at frequency #74,536 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.lɛ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui allaite.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for allaitant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is allaitant, spelled A-L-L-A-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui allaite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allaitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette question mariant sécurité et efficacité dans des élevages dont la taille va croissant tandis que la main d’œuvre, elle, se fait rare, est de plus en plus prégnante avec les nombreuses interventions qui émaillent la vie des cheptels, allaitants notamment : pour piquer, vacciner, trier, écorner, tondre, parer… il faut alloter, désalloter.
La femme enceinte ou allaitante n’est pas tenue de faire des heures supplémentaires.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).