atténuante
\a.te.nɥɑ̃t\
The verdict
“atténuante” is uncommon French (frequency #71,259 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,259
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de atténuant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attenuante · atténuante · French
atténuante · rank #71,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,259
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atténuant
Nearest frequency peer: atténuant (-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 « atténuante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Athens
Athens
28,745 corpus weight
- attachements
attachements
28,744 corpus weight
- atténuant
atténuant
28,743 corpus weight
- atténuante
atténuante
28,742 corpus weight
- auscultation
auscultation
28,741 corpus weight
- autofocus
autofocus
28,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « atténuante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atténuante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.te.nɥɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « atténuante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
atténuante is uncommon French at frequency #71,259 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.te.nɥɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de atténuant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for atténuante in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is atténuante, spelled A-T-T-É-N-U-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de atténuant.
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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