complaisants
\kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“complaisants” is uncommon French (frequency #52,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,579
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de complaisant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complaisants · complaisants · French
complaisants · rank #52,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,579
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communicatif
Nearest frequency peer: communicatif (-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 « complaisants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collignon
collignon
47,425 corpus weight
- commotions
commotions
47,424 corpus weight
- communicatif
communicatif
47,423 corpus weight
- complaisants
complaisants
47,422 corpus weight
- compromissi…
compromissions
47,421 corpus weight
- comptée
comptée
47,420 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complaisants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complaisants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « complaisants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
complaisants is uncommon French at frequency #52,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de complaisant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for complaisants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is complaisants, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de complaisant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how complaisants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour plaire tous les jours, un poète serait donc tenu de déployer les grâces mensongères des gens qui savent se faire pardonner leur obscurité par leurs façons aimables et par leurs complaisants discours ; car, outre le génie, chacun lui demande les plates vertus de salon et le berquinisme de famille.
Tel s’est ému de l’irrévérence de ce jeune homme qui vient traiter de grotesque la candidature de M. Labiche à l’Académie candidature patronnée par MM. Augier et Legouvé, des gens si sérieux, qui, rentré chez lui et désétourdi du bruit fait par des amis complaisants, s’avouera que l’idée était bouffonne et que l’auteur du Chapeau de paille d’Italie n’a pa…
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).