calmants
\kal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“calmants” is uncommon French (frequency #67,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,355
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de calmant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calmants · calmants · French
calmants · rank #67,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,355
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Callot
Nearest frequency peer: Callot (-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 « calmants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cagliostro
Cagliostro
32,649 corpus weight
- caillouteux
caillouteux
32,648 corpus weight
- Callot
Callot
32,647 corpus weight
- calmants
calmants
32,646 corpus weight
- calédonien
calédonien
32,645 corpus weight
- calédoniens
calédoniens
32,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calmants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calmants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calmants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calmants is uncommon French at frequency #67,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de calmant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for calmants in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is calmants, spelled C-A-L-M-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de calmant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calmants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le « débestialiser » - pour le « discipliner », aurait dit Foucault, un autre maître à penser de Sloterdijk -, on lui ferait donc ingérer dès sa plus tendre enfance les « grands auteurs » dont la vertu principale résiderait dans les effets calmants.
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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