complaisent
\kɔ̃.plɛz\
The verdict
“complaisent” is uncommon French (frequency #70,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,492
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de complaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complaisent · complaisent · French
complaisent · rank #70,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,492
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compilateurs
Nearest frequency peer: compilateurs (-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 « complaisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coment
coment
29,512 corpus weight
- compass
compass
29,511 corpus weight
- compilateurs
compilateurs
29,510 corpus weight
- complaisent
complaisent
29,509 corpus weight
- concentraie…
concentraient
29,507 corpus weight
- concilie
concilie
29,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complaisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complaisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « complaisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
complaisent is uncommon French at frequency #70,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.plɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for complaisent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is complaisent, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de complaire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de complaire.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).