diluant
\di.lɥɑ̃\
The verdict
“diluant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,429 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,429
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide volatil ajouté à une colle ou une peinture, qui en la rendant plus liquide facilite son application, avant de durcir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diluant · diluant · French
diluant · rank #71,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,429
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diagnostiquées
Nearest frequency peer: diagnostiquées (-2 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 « diluant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diagnostiqu…
diagnostiquées
28,574 corpus weight
- diluant
diluant
28,572 corpus weight
- disséminée
disséminée
28,570 corpus weight
- distribuaie…
distribuaient
28,569 corpus weight
- doctoresse
doctoresse
28,567 corpus weight
- domiciliair…
domiciliaires
28,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diluant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diluant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.lɥɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diluant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diluant is uncommon French at frequency #71,429 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.lɥɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liquide volatil ajouté à une colle ou une peinture, qui en la rendant plus liquide facilite son application, avant de durcir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diluant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is diluant, spelled D-I-L-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Liquide volatil ajouté à une colle ou une peinture, qui en la rendant plus liquide facilite son application, avant de durcir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diluant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons déjà dit qu’il n’existe que deux solutions efficaces de ce problème : l’émulsionnement de l’huile, permettant de diluer les couleurs avec de l’eau, ou l’emploi d’un diluant volatil de l’huile.
This word in other languages
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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