effleurant
\e.flœ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“effleurant” is uncommon French (frequency #86,663 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de effleurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effleurant · effleurant · French
effleurant · rank #86,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,663
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effarés
Nearest frequency peer: effarés (-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 « effleurant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- E6
E6
13,342 corpus weight
- ecclésial
ecclésial
13,341 corpus weight
- effarés
effarés
13,339 corpus weight
- effleurant
effleurant
13,338 corpus weight
- elli
elli
13,336 corpus weight
- embouchures
embouchures
13,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effleurant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effleurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.flœ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effleurant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effleurant is uncommon French at frequency #86,663 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.flœ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de effleurer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for effleurant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is effleurant, spelled E-F-F-L-E-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de effleurer.
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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