consolidant

\kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“consolidant” is uncommon French (frequency #68,937 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,937
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui consolide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-consolidant · consolidant · French

consolidant · rank #68,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,937
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH consacrez

Nearest frequency peer: consacrez (-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 « consolidant »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for consolidant
PropertyValue
Headwordconsolidant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#68,937
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « consolidant » en français

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « consacrez » (#68,936), « congédie » (#68,935), « consultes » (#68,939). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « consolidant » est au #68,937. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

consolidant is uncommon French at frequency #68,937 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui consolide.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for consolidant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is consolidant, spelled C-O-N-S-O-L-I-D-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui consolide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mais lorsque les matériaux sont irréguliers, leur juxtaposition ne peut être complète, et la construction manquera de solidité s’ils ne sont reliés les uns aux autres par une substance intermédiaire, destinée à remplir les intervalles résultant de leur inégalité, et à prendre avec le temps assez de dureté et d’adhérence pour résister au frottement et à l’…
  2. La même opération est encore plus nécessaire aux cidres qu’aux vins, parce que les deux substances consolidantes, alcool et tannin, étant en moindre quantité dans les cidres, ceux-ci sont beaucoup plus exposés que les vins à la fermentation acétique.

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 "consolidant"?
"consolidant" is spelled C-O-N-S-O-L-I-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\.
What does "consolidant" mean?
As an adjective, "consolidant" means: Qui consolide.
How do you pronounce "consolidant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consolidant" is \kɔ̃.sɔ.li.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "consolidant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "consolidant", 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