étincelantes
\e.tɛ̃.sə.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“étincelantes” is uncommon French (frequency #79,005 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,005
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de étincelant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etincelantes · étincelantes · French
étincelantes · rank #79,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,005
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étagement
Nearest frequency peer: étagement (-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 « étincelantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- érogènes
érogènes
20,999 corpus weight
- éruptive
éruptive
20,998 corpus weight
- étagement
étagement
20,997 corpus weight
- étincelantes
étincelantes
20,996 corpus weight
- évaporés
évaporés
20,995 corpus weight
- œcuméniques
œcuméniques
20,994 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étincelantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étincelantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tɛ̃.sə.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #79,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étincelantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étincelantes is uncommon French at frequency #79,005 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.tɛ̃.sə.lɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de étincelant.".
étincelantes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 étincelantes, spelled É-T-I-N-C-E-L-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de étincelant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étincelantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des pensées ardentes enflammaient son âme, comme ses sens étaient embrasés par le spectacle de ces actrices aux yeux lascifs et relevés par le rouge, à gorges étincelantes, vêtues de basquines voluptueuses à plis licencieux, à jupes courtes montrant leurs jambes en bas rouges à coins verts, chaussées de manière à mettre un parterre en émoi.
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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