branlant
\bʁɑ̃.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“branlant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,108 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,108
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croix sans coulant, terminée en pendeloque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-branlant · branlant · French
branlant · rank #62,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,108
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BPC
Nearest frequency peer: BPC (-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 « branlant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bourvil
Bourvil
37,896 corpus weight
- boycottent
boycottent
37,895 corpus weight
- BPC
BPC
37,894 corpus weight
- branlant
branlant
37,893 corpus weight
- breeze
breeze
37,892 corpus weight
- Breguet
Breguet
37,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « branlant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | branlant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « branlant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
branlant is uncommon French at frequency #62,108 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɑ̃.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
branlant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is branlant, spelled B-R-A-N-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Croix sans coulant, terminée en pendeloque.
- 2Incertitude, faiblesse, caractère ce qui n’est pas assuré.
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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