errante
\ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“errante” is uncommon French (frequency #52,046 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,046
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de errant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-errante · errante · French
errante · rank #52,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,046
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entérite
Nearest frequency peer: entérite (-2 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 « errante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- eno
eno
47,959 corpus weight
- enragée
enragée
47,958 corpus weight
- entérite
entérite
47,957 corpus weight
- errante
errante
47,955 corpus weight
- esti
esti
47,953 corpus weight
- euthanasier
euthanasier
47,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « errante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | errante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « errante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
errante is uncommon French at frequency #52,046 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de errant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for errante, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 errante, spelled E-R-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de errant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how errante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le délire prélatal subira un terme. Il n’aura pas réussi à déséterniser l’Église et la naturaliser un instant dans cette basse et fugitive région du temps où elle est errante.
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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