clamant
\kla.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“clamant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,146
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe clamer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clamant · clamant · French
clamant · rank #55,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,146
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circonspection
Nearest frequency peer: circonspection (-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 « clamant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chétif
chétif
44,858 corpus weight
- cintrée
cintrée
44,857 corpus weight
- circonspect…
circonspection
44,856 corpus weight
- clamant
clamant
44,855 corpus weight
- Clarendon
Clarendon
44,854 corpus weight
- cligne
cligne
44,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clamant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clamant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kla.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clamant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clamant is uncommon French at frequency #55,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kla.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe clamer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for clamant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clamant, spelled C-L-A-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe clamer.
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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