corrigeant
\kɔ.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“corrigeant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,382 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,382
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de corriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corrigeant · corrigeant · French
corrigeant · rank #51,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,382
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corriere
Nearest frequency peer: corriere (-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 « corrigeant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- correspondra
correspondra
48,621 corpus weight
- corriere
corriere
48,620 corpus weight
- corrigeant
corrigeant
48,619 corpus weight
- cosaque
cosaque
48,618 corpus weight
- cousues
cousues
48,617 corpus weight
- couvercles
couvercles
48,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corrigeant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corrigeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corrigeant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corrigeant is uncommon French at frequency #51,382 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de corriger.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for corrigeant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is corrigeant, spelled C-O-R-R-I-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de corriger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corrigeant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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