awakening
\əˈweɪ.kə.nɪŋ\
The verdict
“awakening” is uncommon French (frequency #88,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,346
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Naissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-awakening · awakening · French
awakening · rank #88,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,346
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avoisiner
Nearest frequency peer: avoisiner (-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 « awakening »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aveline
aveline
11,659 corpus weight
- avisant
avisant
11,657 corpus weight
- avoisiner
avoisiner
11,656 corpus weight
- awakening
awakening
11,655 corpus weight
- axiaux
axiaux
11,654 corpus weight
- Aylin
Aylin
11,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « awakening » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awakening |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \əˈweɪ.kə.nɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « awakening » en français
Rare enough to double-check
awakening is uncommon French at frequency #88,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \əˈweɪ.kə.nɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Naissant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for awakening in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is awakening, spelled A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Naissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how awakening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He has an awakening interest in art.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "awakening"?
What does "awakening" mean?
How do you pronounce "awakening"?
What language does "awakening" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "awakening", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).