editing
\ˈɛd.ɪ.tɪŋ\
The verdict
“editing” is uncommon French (frequency #89,661 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,661
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to edit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-editing · editing · French
editing · rank #89,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,661
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH dévoilerai
Nearest frequency peer: dévoilerai (-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 « editing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détienne
détienne
10,345 corpus weight
- détruisaient
détruisaient
10,344 corpus weight
- dévoilerai
dévoilerai
10,341 corpus weight
- editing
editing
10,340 corpus weight
- Eiger
Eiger
10,338 corpus weight
- Ekman
Ekman
10,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « editing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | editing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɛd.ɪ.tɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « editing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
editing is uncommon French at frequency #89,661 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈɛd.ɪ.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to edit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for editing, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is editing, spelled E-D-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to edit.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).