containing
\kənˈteɪ.nɪŋ\
The verdict
“containing” is uncommon French (frequency #91,558 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,558
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe contain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-containing · containing · French
containing · rank #91,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,558
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consument
Nearest frequency peer: consument (-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 « containing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conspirent
conspirent
8,446 corpus weight
- consubstant…
consubstantiel
8,445 corpus weight
- consument
consument
8,444 corpus weight
- containing
containing
8,443 corpus weight
- contempteurs
contempteurs
8,442 corpus weight
- contiens
contiens
8,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « containing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | containing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kənˈteɪ.nɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « containing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
containing is uncommon French at frequency #91,558 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kənˈteɪ.nɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe contain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for containing in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is containing, spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe contain.
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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