bâtissant
\bɑ.ti.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“bâtissant” is uncommon French (frequency #84,595 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,595
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de bâtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batissant · bâtissant · French
bâtissant · rank #84,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,595
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burins
Nearest frequency peer: burins (-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 « bâtissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
15,411 corpus weight
- burel
burel
15,409 corpus weight
- burins
burins
15,408 corpus weight
- bâtissant
bâtissant
15,406 corpus weight
- cabello
cabello
15,402 corpus weight
- cabin
cabin
15,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bâtissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâtissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɑ.ti.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bâtissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bâtissant is uncommon French at frequency #84,595 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɑ.ti.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de bâtir.".
bâtissant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bâtissant, spelled B-Â-T-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de bâtir.
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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