débitant
\de.bi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“débitant” is uncommon French (frequency #95,819 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,819
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui débite quelque marchandise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debitant · débitant · French
débitant · rank #95,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH durian
Nearest frequency peer: durian (-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 « débitant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drummer
drummer
4,185 corpus weight
- dupliqué
dupliqué
4,184 corpus weight
- durian
durian
4,183 corpus weight
- débitant
débitant
4,182 corpus weight
- débitent
débitent
4,181 corpus weight
- décaissement
décaissement
4,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débitant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.bi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débitant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débitant is uncommon French at frequency #95,819 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.bi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
débitant has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 débitant, spelled D-É-B-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui débite quelque marchandise.
- 2Petit laminoir utilisé par les chaînistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous verrez voir qu'il va revenir ! précisa d'un ton narquois la débitante.
Un débitant de tabac.
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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