cognant
\kɔ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“cognant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,481 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,481
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe cogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognant · cognant · French
cognant · rank #70,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,481
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coire
Nearest frequency peer: coire (+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 « cognant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clémentes
clémentes
29,523 corpus weight
- cognant
cognant
29,520 corpus weight
- coire
coire
29,519 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaboratives
29,518 corpus weight
- collantes
collantes
29,517 corpus weight
- collyre
collyre
29,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cognant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cognant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cognant is uncommon French at frequency #70,481 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe cogner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cognant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 cognant, spelled C-O-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe cogner.
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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