chutant
\ʃy.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“chutant” is uncommon French (frequency #53,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,854
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe chuter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chutant · chutant · French
chutant · rank #53,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,854
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chivas
Nearest frequency peer: chivas (-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 « chutant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
- chica
chica
46,149 corpus weight
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
- chutant
chutant
46,147 corpus weight
- citrate
citrate
46,145 corpus weight
- clament
clament
46,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chutant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chutant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃy.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chutant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chutant is uncommon French at frequency #53,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃy.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe chuter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chutant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 chutant, spelled C-H-U-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe chuter.
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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