défaillantes
\de.fa.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“défaillantes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,886 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,886
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de défaillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defaillantes · défaillantes · French
défaillantes · rank #65,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,886
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dédaigne
Nearest frequency peer: dédaigne (-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 « défaillantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décongeler
décongeler
34,118 corpus weight
- dédaigne
dédaigne
34,116 corpus weight
- défaillantes
défaillantes
34,115 corpus weight
- dégeu
dégeu
34,114 corpus weight
- dégomme
dégomme
34,113 corpus weight
- délabrés
délabrés
34,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défaillantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défaillantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.fa.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défaillantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défaillantes is uncommon French at frequency #65,886 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.fa.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de défaillant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for défaillantes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is défaillantes, spelled D-É-F-A-I-L-L-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de défaillant.
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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