confidents
\kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“confidents” is uncommon French (frequency #86,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,563
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de confident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confidents · confidents · French
confidents · rank #86,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,563
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confessent
Nearest frequency peer: confessent (-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 « confidents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- confisquent
confisquent
13,436 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confidents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confidents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confidents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confidents is uncommon French at frequency #86,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de confident.".
No misspelling variants are generated for confidents in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 confidents, spelled C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de confident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confidents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Canal+ a été créée par l’un des plus proches confidents et conseillers de François Mitterrand, alors président de la République, André Rousselet.
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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