bombardant
\bɔ̃.baʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“bombardant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,629 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,629
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe bombarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombardant · bombardant · French
bombardant · rank #69,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,629
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boltanski
Nearest frequency peer: Boltanski (-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 « bombardant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boltanski
Boltanski
30,373 corpus weight
- bombardant
bombardant
30,372 corpus weight
- bonnasse
bonnasse
30,371 corpus weight
- bonobos
bonobos
30,370 corpus weight
- Bonsecours
Bonsecours
30,369 corpus weight
- Bouba
Bouba
30,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bombardant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombardant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.baʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bombardant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bombardant is uncommon French at frequency #69,629 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔ̃.baʁ.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe bombarder.".
bombardant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bombardant, spelled B-O-M-B-A-R-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe bombarder.
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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