combattantes
\kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“combattantes” is uncommon French (frequency #51,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,363
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de combattant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combattantes · combattantes · French
combattantes · rank #51,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,363
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colporteur
Nearest frequency peer: colporteur (-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 « combattantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clito
clito
48,641 corpus weight
- Clotaire
Clotaire
48,640 corpus weight
- colporteur
colporteur
48,639 corpus weight
- combattantes
combattantes
48,638 corpus weight
- commets
commets
48,637 corpus weight
- communicati…
communicative
48,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « combattantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combattantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « combattantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
combattantes is uncommon French at frequency #51,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de combattant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for combattantes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is combattantes, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-T-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de combattant.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).