élançant
\e.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“élançant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,405 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,405
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de élancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elancant · élançant · French
élançant · rank #85,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,405
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH égoïsmes
Nearest frequency peer: égoïsmes (-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 « élançant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écrémage
écrémage
14,599 corpus weight
- édredon
édredon
14,598 corpus weight
- égoïsmes
égoïsmes
14,597 corpus weight
- élançant
élançant
14,596 corpus weight
- émergeait
émergeait
14,595 corpus weight
- émette
émette
14,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élançant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élançant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élançant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élançant is uncommon French at frequency #85,405 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de élancer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for élançant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is élançant, spelled É-L-A-N-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de élancer.
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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