consistants

\kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“consistants” is uncommon French (frequency #86,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,566
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de consistant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-consistants · consistants · French

consistants · rank #86,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,566
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH confisquent

Nearest frequency peer: confisquent (-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 « consistants »

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 « consistants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for consistants
PropertyValue
Headwordconsistants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#86,566
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « consistants » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.consistantstombe 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: « confisquent » (#86,565), « consolateur » (#86,567), « confinant » (#86,564). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « consistants » est au #86,566. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

consistants is uncommon French at frequency #86,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de consistant.".

consistants has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is consistants, spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de consistant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Plus loin, dans le chapitre III de la deuxième partie, nous verrons comment Gabriela eut besoin d’éprouver des liens fiables, stables, consistants avant d’accepter la proposition de consultations thérapeutiques en compagnie d’Esteban et de se procurer un espace psychique nécessaire, où non seulement elle put exprimer ses ressentis en relation à des événem…

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 "consistants"?
"consistants" is spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\.
What does "consistants" mean?
As an adjective, "consistants" means: Masculin pluriel de consistant.
How do you pronounce "consistants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consistants" is \kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\. 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 "consistants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list