attrapant
\a.tʁa.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“attrapant” is uncommon French (frequency #65,712 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,712
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe attraper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attrapant · attrapant · French
attrapant · rank #65,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attirez
Nearest frequency peer: attirez (-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 « attrapant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asphyxiés
asphyxiés
34,293 corpus weight
- aspi
aspi
34,292 corpus weight
- astiquer
astiquer
34,291 corpus weight
- attirez
attirez
34,290 corpus weight
- attrapant
attrapant
34,289 corpus weight
- Aventin
Aventin
34,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attrapant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attrapant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tʁa.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attrapant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attrapant is uncommon French at frequency #65,712 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tʁa.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe attraper.".
attrapant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is attrapant, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe attraper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attrapant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa gaieté, quand il m’avait vu lui donnant débonnairement une somme si énorme, me parut alors être la joie des valets de théâtre attrapant quelque Géronte.
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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