consentent

\kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\

/\kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\/ verb

The verdict

“consentent” is uncommon French (frequency #56,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,507
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 consentir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-consentent · consentent · French

consentent · rank #56,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,507
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH conquit

Nearest frequency peer: conquit (-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 « consentent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « consentent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for consentent
PropertyValue
Headwordconsentent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#56,507
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « consentent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.consententtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « conquit » (#56,506), « conserverait » (#56,508), « concubines » (#56,505). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « consentent » est au #56,507. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

consentent is uncommon French at frequency #56,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

consentent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is consentent, spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de consentir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de consentir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how consentent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une autre cause vient de ce système même : ce qui permet au grand propriétaire d’innover, c’est qu’il est « tout seul dans son finage et qu’il a de grandes pièces », au lieu de la dispersion et de l’enchevêtrement des parcelles du petit propriétaire, qui ne peut innover que si les voisins consentent tous à l’imiter : sans quoi, impossible de déblaver ou d…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "consentent"?
"consentent" is spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\.
What does "consentent" mean?
As a verb, "consentent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de consentir.
How do you pronounce "consentent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consentent" is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "consentent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list