éteignant
\e.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“éteignant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,208 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,208
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de éteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eteignant · éteignant · French
éteignant · rank #71,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,208
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH établirait
Nearest frequency peer: établirait (-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 « éteignant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épisodiquem…
épisodiquement
28,798 corpus weight
- équilibrent
équilibrent
28,797 corpus weight
- érigea
érigea
28,796 corpus weight
- établirait
établirait
28,794 corpus weight
- éteignant
éteignant
28,793 corpus weight
- étoilées
étoilées
28,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éteignant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éteignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éteignant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éteignant is uncommon French at frequency #71,208 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de éteindre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for éteignant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is éteignant, spelled É-T-E-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de éteindre.
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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