fendant
\fɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“fendant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,995 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,995
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prend des airs de fanfaron et veut en faire accroire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fendant · fendant · French
fendant · rank #62,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fesser
Nearest frequency peer: fesser (+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 « fendant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fama
fama
37,010 corpus weight
- famas
famas
37,009 corpus weight
- fendant
fendant
37,006 corpus weight
- fesser
fesser
37,005 corpus weight
- feuilletant
feuilletant
37,004 corpus weight
- filmique
filmique
37,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fendant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fendant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fendant is uncommon French at frequency #62,995 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui prend des airs de fanfaron et veut en faire accroire.".
fendant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fendant, spelled F-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prend des airs de fanfaron et veut en faire accroire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire le fendant.
Faisant un peu le fendant sur les quais de Calais, la dague au côté et le manteau rejeté sur l'épaule, Guccio avait enfin trouvé un patron de bateau qui voulût bien l'embarquer.
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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