ébranlent
\e.bʁɑ̃l\
The verdict
“ébranlent” is uncommon French (frequency #80,797 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,797
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ébranler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ebranlent · ébranlent · French
ébranlent · rank #80,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,797
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zwischen
Nearest frequency peer: zwischen (-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 « ébranlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zigzags
zigzags
19,207 corpus weight
- Zouzou
Zouzou
19,206 corpus weight
- zwischen
zwischen
19,205 corpus weight
- ébranlent
ébranlent
19,204 corpus weight
- échangerais
échangerais
19,203 corpus weight
- élaguer
élaguer
19,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ébranlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébranlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.bʁɑ̃l\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ébranlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ébranlent is uncommon French at frequency #80,797 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.bʁɑ̃l\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ébranlent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ébranlent, spelled É-B-R-A-N-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ébranler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ébranler.
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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