débattant
\de.ba.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“débattant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,212 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,212
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de débattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debattant · débattant · French
débattant · rank #62,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,212
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarquements
Nearest frequency peer: débarquements (-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 « débattant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dud
dud
37,793 corpus weight
- dysfonction
dysfonction
37,791 corpus weight
- débarquemen…
débarquements
37,790 corpus weight
- débattant
débattant
37,789 corpus weight
- déchargent
déchargent
37,788 corpus weight
- déconseiller
déconseiller
37,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débattant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débattant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ba.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débattant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débattant is uncommon French at frequency #62,212 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ba.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de débattre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for débattant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 débattant, spelled D-É-B-A-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de débattre.
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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