allumant
\a.ly.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“allumant” is uncommon French (frequency #50,629 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,629
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe allumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumant · allumant · French
allumant · rank #50,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,629
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allgemeine
Nearest frequency peer: allgemeine (-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 « allumant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allaite
allaite
49,375 corpus weight
- allegri
allegri
49,374 corpus weight
- allgemeine
allgemeine
49,373 corpus weight
- allumant
allumant
49,372 corpus weight
- aloi
aloi
49,371 corpus weight
- Aminata
Aminata
49,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allumant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ly.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allumant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allumant is uncommon French at frequency #50,629 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ly.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe allumer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for allumant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 allumant, spelled A-L-L-U-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe allumer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allumant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dignes bêtes formaient une assemblée de sujets plus fidèles que ceux à qui s’adressait alors le roi, tous tachetés de blanc, de brun, de noir, ayant chacun leur physionomie absolument comme les soldats de Napoléon, allumant au moindre bruit leurs prunelles d’un feu qui les faisait ressembler à des diamants ; l’un, venu du Poitou, court de reins, large…
En s’allumant, le gaz émit un petit plop.
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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