codant

adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « codant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for codant
PropertyValue
Headwordcodant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Frequency rank#76,438
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « codant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.codanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « clébard » (#76,436), « cognes » (#76,440), « clubbing » (#76,435). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « codant » est au #76,438. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui code.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how codant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "codant"?
"codant" is spelled C-O-D-A-N-T.
What does "codant" mean?
As an adjective, "codant" means: Qui code.
What language does "codant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "codant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list