feignants
\fɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“feignants” is uncommon French (frequency #66,733 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,733
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de feignant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feignants · feignants · French
feignants · rank #66,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,733
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferre
Nearest frequency peer: ferre (+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 « feignants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fastoche
fastoche
33,270 corpus weight
- feignants
feignants
33,268 corpus weight
- ferre
ferre
33,267 corpus weight
- finançait
finançait
33,266 corpus weight
- fissurer
fissurer
33,265 corpus weight
- flam
flam
33,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feignants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feignants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feignants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feignants is uncommon French at frequency #66,733 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛ.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de feignant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for feignants in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is feignants, spelled F-E-I-G-N-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de feignant.
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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