divertissants

\di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\

/\di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“divertissants” is uncommon French (frequency #85,641 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,641
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de divertissant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-divertissants · divertissants · French

divertissants · rank #85,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,641
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dirigiste

Nearest frequency peer: dirigiste (-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 « divertissants »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divertissants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for divertissants
PropertyValue
Headworddivertissants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#85,641
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « divertissants » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).divertissantstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « dirigiste » (#85,640), « dilatent » (#85,638), « difformité » (#85,637). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « divertissants » est au #85,641. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

divertissants is uncommon French at frequency #85,641 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de divertissant.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for divertissants in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is divertissants, spelled D-I-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de divertissant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how divertissants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Enfin tous ces animaux-là sont si peu divertissants que je me suis trouvé très heureux de m’embarquer sur une polacre génoise qui devait aller charger aux îles Ioniennes de la poudre et des munitions pour Ali de Tébélen.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "divertissants"?
"divertissants" is spelled D-I-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\.
What does "divertissants" mean?
As an adjective, "divertissants" means: Masculin pluriel de divertissant.
How do you pronounce "divertissants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "divertissants" is \di.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "divertissants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list