errantes
\ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“errantes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,667 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,667
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de errant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-errantes · errantes · French
errantes · rank #75,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,667
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Ernaux
Nearest frequency peer: Ernaux (-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 « errantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Entremont
Entremont
24,340 corpus weight
- entresol
entresol
24,339 corpus weight
- Ernaux
Ernaux
24,335 corpus weight
- errantes
errantes
24,334 corpus weight
- Esdras
Esdras
24,333 corpus weight
- exiguë
exiguë
24,328 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « errantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | errantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « errantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
errantes is uncommon French at frequency #75,667 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de errant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for errantes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 errantes, spelled E-R-R-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de errant.
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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