distendu
\dis.tɑ̃.dy\
The verdict
“distendu” is uncommon French (frequency #91,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,612
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de distendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distendu · distendu · French
distendu · rank #91,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,612
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discuterai
Nearest frequency peer: discuterai (-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 « distendu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diminutifs
diminutifs
8,393 corpus weight
- discontinues
discontinues
8,392 corpus weight
- discuterai
discuterai
8,390 corpus weight
- distendu
distendu
8,389 corpus weight
- dormes
dormes
8,386 corpus weight
- drainée
drainée
8,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distendu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distendu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.tɑ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distendu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distendu is uncommon French at frequency #91,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.tɑ̃.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de distendre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for distendu, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 distendu, spelled D-I-S-T-E-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de distendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distendu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La haute lampe placée derrière les promeneurs éclaira subitement l’homme qui riait sans bruit, les yeux fermés. Sur son visage blanchâtre, distendu par une hilarité muette, la sueur coulait à grosses gouttes.
Les lobes de ses oreilles ont été distendus par des boucles à trois étages et le trou percé autrefois est devenu une longue fente tellement pèsent les pierres et l’or.
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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