feignante
\fɛ.ɲɑ̃t\
The verdict
“feignante” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fainéante ; paresseuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feignante · feignante · French
feignante · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feignante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ɲɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feignante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feignante is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ɲɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fainéante ; paresseuse.".
feignante doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is feignante, spelled F-E-I-G-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fainéante ; paresseuse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.