codant
The verdict
“codant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,438 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,438
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui code.
Corpus desk
Index FR-codant · codant · French
codant · rank #76,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,438
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clébard
Nearest frequency peer: clébard (-2 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 « codant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clubbing
clubbing
23,566 corpus weight
- clébard
clébard
23,565 corpus weight
- codant
codant
23,563 corpus weight
- cognes
cognes
23,561 corpus weight
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
- colomba
colomba
23,559 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « codant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | codant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « codant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
codant is uncommon French at frequency #76,438 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui code.".
No misspelling variants are generated for codant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is codant, spelled C-O-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui code.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how codant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
John Colbourne, de l'Université de l'Indiana à Bloomington, et une équipe internationale de chercheurs rapportent que le génome de cette petite bestiole d'eau douce apparentée à la crevette est plein à craquer de gènes qui forment la majeure partie de son ADN, celui-ci ayant relativement peu de séquences non codantes.
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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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