élisant
\e.li.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“élisant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,032 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,032
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de élire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elisant · élisant · French
élisant · rank #59,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éhonté
Nearest frequency peer: éhonté (-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 « élisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclatera
éclatera
40,971 corpus weight
- éhonté
éhonté
40,970 corpus weight
- élisant
élisant
40,969 corpus weight
- émancipée
émancipée
40,968 corpus weight
- épargnera
épargnera
40,967 corpus weight
- épeautre
épeautre
40,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.li.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élisant is uncommon French at frequency #59,032 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.li.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de élire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for élisant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 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 élisant, spelled É-L-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de élire.
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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