condense
\kɔ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“condense” is uncommon French (frequency #62,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,160
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de condenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-condense · condense · French
condense · rank #62,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,160
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH condamine
Nearest frequency peer: condamine (-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 « condense »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- concubin
concubin
37,843 corpus weight
- condamine
condamine
37,842 corpus weight
- condense
condense
37,841 corpus weight
- congelées
congelées
37,840 corpus weight
- conjoncture…
conjoncturelles
37,839 corpus weight
- Constantino…
Constantinois
37,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « condense » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | condense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « condense » en français
Rare enough to double-check
condense is uncommon French at frequency #62,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for condense, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is condense, spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de condenser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de condenser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de condenser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de condenser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de condenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how condense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec son compte Serial Thinker, où il condense des notions du bac philo dans des vidéos de trois minutes, le professeur strasbourgeois Lev Fraenckel cartonne sur TikTok.
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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