atterrissant
\a.te.ʁi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“atterrissant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,574
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de atterrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atterrissant · atterrissant · French
atterrissant · rank #74,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,574
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aureus
Nearest frequency peer: aureus (+2 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 « atterrissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assoupie
assoupie
25,432 corpus weight
- astucieusem…
astucieusement
25,431 corpus weight
- athérosclér…
athérosclérose
25,430 corpus weight
- atterrissant
atterrissant
25,427 corpus weight
- aureus
aureus
25,425 corpus weight
- Aussie
Aussie
25,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « atterrissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atterrissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.te.ʁi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « atterrissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
atterrissant is uncommon French at frequency #74,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.te.ʁi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de atterrir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for atterrissant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is atterrissant, spelled A-T-T-E-R-R-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de atterrir.
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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