courbant
\kuʁ.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“courbant” is uncommon French (frequency #89,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,566
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de courber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-courbant · courbant · French
courbant · rank #89,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,566
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupants
Nearest frequency peer: coupants (-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 « courbant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coucherais
coucherais
10,438 corpus weight
- coulez
coulez
10,437 corpus weight
- coupants
coupants
10,436 corpus weight
- courbant
courbant
10,435 corpus weight
- courbature
courbature
10,434 corpus weight
- courront
courront
10,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « courbant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courbant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kuʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « courbant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
courbant is uncommon French at frequency #89,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kuʁ.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de courber.".
No misspelling variants are generated for courbant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 courbant, spelled C-O-U-R-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de courber.
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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