durcissant
\dyʁ.si.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“durcissant” is uncommon French (frequency #87,553 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,553
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la capacité de durcir et se solidifier sous certaines conditions, notamment par une exposition prolongée à l’air ambiant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durcissant · durcissant · French
durcissant · rank #87,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,553
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duperré
Nearest frequency peer: Duperré (-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 « durcissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duchenne
Duchenne
12,453 corpus weight
- Ducret
Ducret
12,452 corpus weight
- Duperré
Duperré
12,449 corpus weight
- durcissant
durcissant
12,448 corpus weight
- débattons
débattons
12,446 corpus weight
- décoiffer
décoiffer
12,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « durcissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durcissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dyʁ.si.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « durcissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
durcissant is uncommon French at frequency #87,553 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dyʁ.si.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for durcissant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is durcissant, spelled D-U-R-C-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a la capacité de durcir et se solidifier sous certaines conditions, notamment par une exposition prolongée à l’air ambiant.
- 2Qui durcit ou a le pouvoir de durcir quelque-chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durcissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une pâte à modeler durcissante.
De l’argile durcissante.
Synonyms
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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