détonant
The verdict
“détonant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,105 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,105
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est susceptible de détoner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detonant · détonant · French
détonant · rank #81,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,105
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détectant
Nearest frequency peer: détectant (-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 « détonant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Déry
Déry
18,900 corpus weight
- déshériter
déshériter
18,899 corpus weight
- désintéress…
désintéressent
18,898 corpus weight
- détectant
détectant
18,897 corpus weight
- détonant
détonant
18,896 corpus weight
- détournera
détournera
18,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détonant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détonant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détonant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détonant is uncommon French at frequency #81,105 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
- 1Qui est susceptible de détoner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détonant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poudres flash sont des mélanges pyrotechniques non seulement déflagrants, mais aussi détonants. Sur plusieurs centaines de bombes annuellement en cause, il y a environ 15% de cas où il est fait usage de poudres flash.
Au dépôt de munitions de l'Organisation Todt de Sables-d'Or, cent capsules détonantes et huit cartouches de poudre noire sont dérobées entre septembre 1942 et janvier 1943.
Antonyms
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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