exaspérant
\ɛɡ.zas.pe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“exaspérant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,270 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,270
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui exaspère, qui est propre à exaspérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exasperant · exaspérant · French
exaspérant · rank #55,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,270
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Exarchopoulos
Nearest frequency peer: Exarchopoulos (-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 « exaspérant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eunice
Eunice
44,734 corpus weight
- eurosceptiq…
eurosceptiques
44,733 corpus weight
- Exarchopoul…
Exarchopoulos
44,732 corpus weight
- exaspérant
exaspérant
44,731 corpus weight
- exhale
exhale
44,730 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialisme
44,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exaspérant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exaspérant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zas.pe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exaspérant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exaspérant is uncommon French at frequency #55,270 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡ.zas.pe.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui exaspère, qui est propre à exaspérer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for exaspérant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is exaspérant, spelled E-X-A-S-P-É-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui exaspère, qui est propre à exaspérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exaspérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me fallait, selon les jours, l’heure de déplacement et la pluviométrie, entre vingt et trente-cinq minutes pour me rendre sur mon lieu de travail où un parc de stationnement réservé au personnel m’évitait la fastidieuse et exaspérante recherche d’une place.
Ce fut, pêle-mêle, l’ingratitude des concitoyens plus enclins à débiner les chaussettes à clous qu'à les soutenir, les manies exaspérantes du margis Barguinoux et les sornettes lourdingues du juteux Pénardin, la promotion qui ne viendrait jamais, je ne sais quoi encore, […].
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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