developing
\dɪˈvɛl.ə.pɪŋ\
The verdict
“developing” is uncommon French (frequency #95,797 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,797
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe develop.
Corpus desk
Index FR-developing · developing · French
developing · rank #95,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,797
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devinant
Nearest frequency peer: devinant (+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 « developing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dessinaient
dessinaient
4,208 corpus weight
- developing
developing
4,204 corpus weight
- devinant
devinant
4,203 corpus weight
- Dieulefit
Dieulefit
4,202 corpus weight
- dijk
dijk
4,200 corpus weight
- dilatoires
dilatoires
4,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « developing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | developing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɪˈvɛl.ə.pɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « developing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
developing is uncommon French at frequency #95,797 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɪˈvɛl.ə.pɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe develop.".
Zero misspellings are on record for developing in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is developing, spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe develop.
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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