enquêtant
\ɑ̃.ke.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“enquêtant” is uncommon French (frequency #58,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de enquêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enquetant · enquêtant · French
enquêtant · rank #58,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enigma
Nearest frequency peer: enigma (-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 « enquêtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encouragera
encouragera
41,416 corpus weight
- enigma
enigma
41,413 corpus weight
- enquêtant
enquêtant
41,412 corpus weight
- enrobage
enrobage
41,411 corpus weight
- entacher
entacher
41,410 corpus weight
- entraînaient
entraînaient
41,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enquêtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enquêtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ke.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enquêtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enquêtant is uncommon French at frequency #58,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ke.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de enquêter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enquêtant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enquêtant, spelled E-N-Q-U-Ê-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de enquêter.
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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