allégeant
\a.le.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“allégeant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,846
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe alléger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allegeant · allégeant · French
allégeant · rank #80,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allonges
Nearest frequency peer: allonges (-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 « allégeant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alek
alek
19,160 corpus weight
- allonges
allonges
19,156 corpus weight
- allégeant
allégeant
19,155 corpus weight
- alpestre
alpestre
19,154 corpus weight
- Alphand
Alphand
19,153 corpus weight
- amadis
amadis
19,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allégeant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allégeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allégeant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allégeant is uncommon French at frequency #80,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.le.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe alléger.".
allégeant has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is allégeant, spelled A-L-L-É-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe alléger.
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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