faufilant
\fo.fi.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“faufilant” is uncommon French (frequency #84,797 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,797
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de faufiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faufilant · faufilant · French
faufilant · rank #84,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,797
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatty
Nearest frequency peer: fatty (-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 « faufilant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantomatiqu…
fantomatiques
15,207 corpus weight
- fatty
fatty
15,205 corpus weight
- faufilant
faufilant
15,204 corpus weight
- fautives
fautives
15,203 corpus weight
- feldspath
feldspath
15,202 corpus weight
- fiera
fiera
15,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faufilant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faufilant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fo.fi.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faufilant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faufilant is uncommon French at frequency #84,797 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fo.fi.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de faufiler.".
Zero misspellings are on record for faufilant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is faufilant, spelled F-A-U-F-I-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de faufiler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faufilant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’entendait dans la clairière que le grouillement des bêtes à poil ou à écailles se faufilant dans la forêt tropicale qui les entourait de trois côtés, le murmure de la rivière et le teuf-teuf incessant du moteur Delco à essence qui fournissait le courant lumière et faisait marcher les vieilles machines de l’atelier de réparation.
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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