évanouissement
\e.va.nwi.sə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“évanouissement” is uncommon French (frequency #53,090 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,090
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perte de connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-evanouissement · évanouissement · French
évanouissement · rank #53,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,090
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étriqué
Nearest frequency peer: étriqué (-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 « évanouissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épluche
épluche
46,916 corpus weight
- éternise
éternise
46,914 corpus weight
- étiqueter
étiqueter
46,913 corpus weight
- étriqué
étriqué
46,912 corpus weight
- évanouissem…
évanouissement
46,911 corpus weight
- 1s
1s
46,907 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « évanouissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | évanouissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.va.nwi.sə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #53,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « évanouissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
évanouissement is uncommon French at frequency #53,090 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.va.nwi.sə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
évanouissement has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is évanouissement, spelled É-V-A-N-O-U-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Perte de connaissance.
- 2Disparition progressive.
- 3Élimination d'une grandeur permettant de simplifier une équation.
- 4Diminution momentanée de la puissance d'un signal radioélectrique à l'entrée d'un récepteur. Variation de la puissance du signal, due aux conditions de propagation des ondes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how évanouissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se réveilla d’un sommeil agité et entrecoupé par les impressions confuses qui accompagnent toujours un long évanouissement.
Les femmes de la cour donnaient des signes de ravissement, penchées au bord de leurs loges, et tentaient même l’évanouissement le plus flatteur.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).