éclipsent
\e.klips\
The verdict
“éclipsent” is uncommon French (frequency #94,412 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,412
- 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 éclipser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclipsent · éclipsent · French
éclipsent · rank #94,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,412
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclampsie
Nearest frequency peer: éclampsie (-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 « éclipsent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zélandaises
zélandaises
5,593 corpus weight
- échauffemen…
échauffements
5,591 corpus weight
- éclampsie
éclampsie
5,590 corpus weight
- éclipsent
éclipsent
5,589 corpus weight
- éclopés
éclopés
5,588 corpus weight
- écrier
écrier
5,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éclipsent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclipsent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.klips\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éclipsent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éclipsent is uncommon French at frequency #94,412 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.klips\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for éclipsent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is éclipsent, spelled É-C-L-I-P-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de éclipser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de éclipser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éclipsent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jusqu'à la Ve République, l'État, la nation, la République éclipsent des imaginaires plus territorialisés, la puissance du concept de République aménageant une prépondérance politique qui s'impose à la géographie et à l'histoire [SADRAN, 2015].
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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