divergeant
\di.vɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“divergeant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,867 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,867
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de diverger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divergeant · divergeant · French
divergeant · rank #97,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,867
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distributive
Nearest frequency peer: distributive (-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 « divergeant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissuadera
dissuadera
2,137 corpus weight
- distancée
distancée
2,136 corpus weight
- distributive
distributive
2,135 corpus weight
- divergeant
divergeant
2,134 corpus weight
- divisibilité
divisibilité
2,133 corpus weight
- divisionnai…
divisionnaires
2,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divergeant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divergeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divergeant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divergeant is uncommon French at frequency #97,867 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.vɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de diverger.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for divergeant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is divergeant, spelled D-I-V-E-R-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de diverger.
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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