distillant
\dis.ti.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“distillant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,494 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,494
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de distiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distillant · distillant · French
distillant · rank #76,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,494
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dish
Nearest frequency peer: dish (-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 « distillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- digger
digger
23,510 corpus weight
- dirigeront
dirigeront
23,509 corpus weight
- dish
dish
23,508 corpus weight
- distillant
distillant
23,507 corpus weight
- distinguo
distinguo
23,506 corpus weight
- diversifiant
diversifiant
23,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.ti.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distillant is uncommon French at frequency #76,494 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.ti.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de distiller.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for distillant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is distillant, spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de distiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romain Lajoinie, qui intervient souvent au sein de l’Ehpad pour distraire les pensionnaires, a su apporter de la gaieté en distillant avec talent de nombreux airs joués à l’accordéon.
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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