discriminante
\dis.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“discriminante” is uncommon French (frequency #68,989 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,989
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de discriminant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discriminante · discriminante · French
discriminante · rank #68,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,989
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigerait
Nearest frequency peer: dirigerait (-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 « discriminante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- directionnel
directionnel
31,015 corpus weight
- directionne…
directionnelle
31,014 corpus weight
- dirigerait
dirigerait
31,013 corpus weight
- discriminan…
discriminante
31,012 corpus weight
- dispersant
dispersant
31,010 corpus weight
- dissipent
dissipent
31,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discriminante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discriminante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #68,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discriminante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discriminante is uncommon French at frequency #68,989 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de discriminant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for discriminante, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is discriminante, spelled D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de discriminant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how discriminante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’analyse factorielle discriminante ou analyse discriminante est une technique statistique qui vise à décrire, expliquer et prédire l’appartenance à des groupes prédéfinis.
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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