feignent
\fɛɲ\
The verdict
“feignent” is uncommon French (frequency #82,951 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de feindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feignent · feignent · French
feignent · rank #82,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,951
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feather
Nearest frequency peer: feather (-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 « feignent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fauchage
fauchage
17,053 corpus weight
- favorisez
favorisez
17,052 corpus weight
- feather
feather
17,051 corpus weight
- feignent
feignent
17,050 corpus weight
- fibromes
fibromes
17,049 corpus weight
- financez
financez
17,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feignent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feignent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feignent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feignent is uncommon French at frequency #82,951 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for feignent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is feignent, spelled F-E-I-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de feindre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de feindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feignent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tant pis pour les riches qui feignent de croire qu’elle justifie leur égoïsme.
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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