constans
\kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“constans” is uncommon French (frequency #84,659 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,659
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien masculin pluriel de constant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constans · constans · French
constans · rank #84,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrefaire
Nearest frequency peer: contrefaire (+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 « constans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- congrats
congrats
15,346 corpus weight
- congédiée
congédiée
15,345 corpus weight
- consistoires
consistoires
15,344 corpus weight
- constans
constans
15,342 corpus weight
- contrefaire
contrefaire
15,341 corpus weight
- controls
controls
15,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « constans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « constans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
constans is uncommon French at frequency #84,659 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien masculin pluriel de constant.".
constans doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is constans, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien masculin pluriel de constant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how constans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le roi des Goths découvrit, sur la fin de sa glorieuse carrière, qu’il était haï de ce peuple, dont le bonheur avait été l’objet de ses constans travaux.
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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