édifiantes

\e.di.fjɑ̃t\

/\e.di.fjɑ̃t\/ adj

The verdict

“édifiantes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,987 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,987
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-edifiantes · édifiantes · French

édifiantes · rank #78,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,987
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH échelonnés

Nearest frequency peer: échelonnés (-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 « édifiantes »

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 « édifiantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for édifiantes
PropertyValue
Headwordédifiantes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.di.fjɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#78,987
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « édifiantes » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.édifiantestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « échelonnés » (#78,986), « échappèrent » (#78,985), « élança » (#78,989). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « édifiantes » est au #78,987. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

édifiantes is uncommon French at frequency #78,987 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.di.fjɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de édifiant.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for édifiantes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 édifiantes, spelled É-D-I-F-I-A-N-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de édifiant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il a enfin massivement débaroquisé les églises romanes surchargées au XVII-XVIIIᵉ siècle d’angelots, de gypseries tarabiscotées, de peintures édifiantes.

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 "édifiantes"?
"édifiantes" is spelled É-D-I-F-I-A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \e.di.fjɑ̃t\.
What does "édifiantes" mean?
As an adjective, "édifiantes" means: Féminin pluriel de édifiant.
How do you pronounce "édifiantes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "édifiantes" is \e.di.fjɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "édifiantes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list