dreaming
\ˈdɹiːm.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“dreaming” is uncommon French (frequency #89,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to dream.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dreaming · dreaming · French
dreaming · rank #89,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,618
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drachme
Nearest frequency peer: drachme (-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 « dreaming »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dorrit
dorrit
10,386 corpus weight
- doze
doze
10,385 corpus weight
- drachme
drachme
10,384 corpus weight
- dreaming
dreaming
10,383 corpus weight
- drue
drue
10,382 corpus weight
- duk
duk
10,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dreaming » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dreaming |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdɹiːm.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dreaming » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dreaming is uncommon French at frequency #89,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdɹiːm.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to dream.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dreaming, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dreaming, spelled D-R-E-A-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to dream.
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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