détonant

adj

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The verdict

“détonant” is an uncommon French word, ranked #81,105 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.

#81,105
frequency rank, French
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est susceptible de détoner.

Key facts for détonant
PropertyValue
Headworddétonant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#81,105
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “détonant” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). détonant lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for détonant is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #81,105 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est susceptible de détoner.".

No misspelling variants are generated for détonant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is détonant, spelled D-É-T-O-N-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est susceptible de détoner.

Antonyms

indétonant

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "détonant"?
"détonant" is spelled D-É-T-O-N-A-N-T.
What does "détonant" mean?
As an adjective, "détonant" means: Qui est susceptible de détoner.
What language does "détonant" come from?
"détonant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “détonant”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-O-N-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list