développante
French, noun/de.vlɔ.pɑ̃t/
développante is spelled D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-A-N-T-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Développante is a French feminine noun meaning “involute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courbe produite par le déroulement d’un fil enroulé sur sa développée”.
What does développante mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinvolute
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courbe produite par le déroulement d’un fil enroulé sur sa développée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of développante
- développantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce développante?
- /de.vlɔ.pɑ̃t/
- \de.və.lɔ.pɑ̃t\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to développante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is développante in French?
développante appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).