endormant
\ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“endormant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,481 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,481
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui endort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endormant · endormant · French
endormant · rank #77,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,481
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emportement
Nearest frequency peer: emportement (-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 « endormant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emme
emme
22,523 corpus weight
- emplir
emplir
22,522 corpus weight
- emportement
emportement
22,521 corpus weight
- endormant
endormant
22,520 corpus weight
- enfante
enfante
22,519 corpus weight
- engageante
engageante
22,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endormant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endormant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endormant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endormant is uncommon French at frequency #77,481 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for endormant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is endormant, spelled E-N-D-O-R-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui endort.
- 2Qui invite au sommeil par l’ennui qu’il cause.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how endormant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un bruit monotone et endormant.
Un peu plus loin que l’Hôtel de Ville, les deux bras de la Seine qui contournent l’île Saint-Louis se joignent en formant un large fleuve. Cette nappe d’eau s’écoulait, passait sur les reflets des lumières et continuait sa route, avec cet aller endormant de l’eau.
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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