approfondissant
\a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.di.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“approfondissant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,935
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui approfondit, qui creuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approfondissant · approfondissant · French
approfondissant · rank #79,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,935
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréhendais
Nearest frequency peer: appréhendais (+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 « approfondissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- applaudissa…
applaudissait
20,069 corpus weight
- apportais
apportais
20,068 corpus weight
- approfondis…
approfondissant
20,066 corpus weight
- appréhendais
appréhendais
20,065 corpus weight
- Arbeit
Arbeit
20,064 corpus weight
- archaïsmes
archaïsmes
20,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approfondissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approfondissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.di.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #79,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approfondissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approfondissant is uncommon French at frequency #79,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.di.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui approfondit, qui creuse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for approfondissant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is approfondissant, spelled A-P-P-R-O-F-O-N-D-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui approfondit, qui creuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how approfondissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire passer deux fois la charrue dans le même sillon, ou employer ces charrues approfondissantes, est toujours une bonne opération.
Plus militante que spéculative, plus voyageuse qu’approfondissante, elle remonte peu aux œuvres au passé, qui n’excitent plus en nous que des jouissances paisibles et des curiosité désintéressées.
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 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).