dissolvent
\di.sɔlv\
The verdict
“dissolvent” is uncommon French (frequency #69,757 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,757
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dissoudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissolvent · dissolvent · French
dissolvent · rank #69,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,757
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissociée
Nearest frequency peer: dissociée (-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 « dissolvent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dispensation
dispensation
30,247 corpus weight
- disruption
disruption
30,246 corpus weight
- dissociée
dissociée
30,245 corpus weight
- dissolvent
dissolvent
30,244 corpus weight
- dissuasives
dissuasives
30,243 corpus weight
- diverti
diverti
30,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dissolvent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissolvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɔlv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dissolvent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dissolvent is uncommon French at frequency #69,757 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.sɔlv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dissolvent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dissolvent, spelled D-I-S-S-O-L-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dissoudre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dissoudre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dissolvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les carbonates, borates et silicates alcalins à chaud dissolvent le grès.
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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