distrayant
\dis.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“distrayant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,879 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,879
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre à distraire, à délasser et divertir l'esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distrayant · distrayant · French
distrayant · rank #55,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,879
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disproportion…
Nearest frequency peer: disproportionnés (-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 « distrayant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discutes
discutes
44,124 corpus weight
- disproporti…
disproportionnés
44,123 corpus weight
- distrayant
distrayant
44,122 corpus weight
- diurétique
diurétique
44,121 corpus weight
- divagations
divagations
44,120 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentaliste
44,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distrayant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distrayant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distrayant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distrayant is uncommon French at frequency #55,879 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est propre à distraire, à délasser et divertir l'esprit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for distrayant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is distrayant, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre à distraire, à délasser et divertir l'esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distrayant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le libéralisme et l’expérimentation sexuelle ne sont que la partie la plus distrayante d'une transformation mentale plus vaste. Sans être obligatoirement la plus importante.
[…] ; oui, je pars à Bamako toute la semaine et pour ne pas trop m'ennuyer dans ma piaule, je viens chercher un bouquin distrayant, qu'est-ce que tu aurais à me conseiller ? Tant qu'à faire, j'aimerais autant que ce soit un bouquin amusant et même pourquoi pas un bouquin de cul !
Synonyms
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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