compliquant
\kɔ̃.pli.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“compliquant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,671 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,671
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe compliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compliquant · compliquant · French
compliquant · rank #74,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,671
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commercialisa…
Nearest frequency peer: commercialisant (-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 « compliquant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coings
coings
25,335 corpus weight
- Collie
Collie
25,334 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialisant
25,332 corpus weight
- compliquant
compliquant
25,330 corpus weight
- conceptrice
conceptrice
25,328 corpus weight
- confites
confites
25,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compliquant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compliquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pli.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compliquant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compliquant is uncommon French at frequency #74,671 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pli.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe compliquer.".
compliquant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is compliquant, spelled C-O-M-P-L-I-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe compliquer.
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).