confessent
\kɔ̃.fɛs\
The verdict
“confessent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,562 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,562
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confessent · confessent · French
confessent · rank #86,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,562
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concassées
Nearest frequency peer: concassées (-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 « confessent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compilée
compilée
13,442 corpus weight
- comptions
comptions
13,441 corpus weight
- concassées
concassées
13,440 corpus weight
- confessent
confessent
13,439 corpus weight
- confidents
confidents
13,438 corpus weight
- confinant
confinant
13,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confessent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confessent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confessent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confessent is uncommon French at frequency #86,562 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.fɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for confessent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is confessent, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confesser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de confesser.
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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