étincelants
\e.tɛ̃.slɑ̃\
The verdict
“étincelants” is uncommon French (frequency #72,859 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,859
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de étincelant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etincelants · étincelants · French
étincelants · rank #72,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,859
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étendrait
Nearest frequency peer: étendrait (-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 « étincelants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épidermiques
épidermiques
27,145 corpus weight
- étendrait
étendrait
27,143 corpus weight
- étincelants
étincelants
27,142 corpus weight
- étourdis
étourdis
27,141 corpus weight
- étuve
étuve
27,140 corpus weight
- évadent
évadent
27,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étincelants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étincelants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tɛ̃.slɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étincelants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étincelants is uncommon French at frequency #72,859 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.tɛ̃.slɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de étincelant.".
étincelants 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is étincelants, spelled É-T-I-N-C-E-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de étincelant.
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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