criante
\kʁi.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“criante” is uncommon French (frequency #52,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,598
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de criant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criante · criante · French
criante · rank #52,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,598
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cracker
Nearest frequency peer: cracker (-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 « criante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couplées
couplées
47,406 corpus weight
- coécrit
coécrit
47,405 corpus weight
- cracker
cracker
47,404 corpus weight
- criante
criante
47,403 corpus weight
- croquette
croquette
47,402 corpus weight
- croupion
croupion
47,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criante is uncommon French at frequency #52,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁi.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de criant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for criante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 criante, spelled C-R-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de criant.
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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