épaississant
\e.pɛ.si.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“épaississant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,589 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,589
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la propriété d’épaissir ou de s’épaissir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epaississant · épaississant · French
épaississant · rank #97,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,589
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émeus
Nearest frequency peer: émeus (-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 « épaississant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élis
élis
2,415 corpus weight
- élixirs
élixirs
2,414 corpus weight
- émeus
émeus
2,413 corpus weight
- épaississant
épaississant
2,412 corpus weight
- épanchements
épanchements
2,411 corpus weight
- épaulent
épaulent
2,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épaississant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épaississant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pɛ.si.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épaississant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épaississant is uncommon French at frequency #97,589 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.pɛ.si.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a la propriété d’épaissir ou de s’épaissir.".
épaississant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 épaississant, spelled É-P-A-I-S-S-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a la propriété d’épaissir ou de s’épaissir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how épaississant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le soir vient saisir ces formes espacées qu’il emmêle dans son épaississant filet.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).