attardant
\a.taʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“attardant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,886 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,886
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe attarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attardant · attardant · French
attardant · rank #80,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,886
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asu
Nearest frequency peer: asu (-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 « attardant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assassinant
assassinant
19,118 corpus weight
- asthénie
asthénie
19,117 corpus weight
- asu
asu
19,116 corpus weight
- attardant
attardant
19,115 corpus weight
- attirons
attirons
19,114 corpus weight
- aubade
aubade
19,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attardant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attardant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.taʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attardant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attardant is uncommon French at frequency #80,886 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.taʁ.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe attarder.".
No misspelling variants are generated for attardant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 attardant, spelled A-T-T-A-R-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe attarder.
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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