fertilisant
\fɛʁ.ti.li.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“fertilisant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,160 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,160
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fertilise, qui est propre à fertiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fertilisant · fertilisant · French
fertilisant · rank #81,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,160
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrures
Nearest frequency peer: ferrures (-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 « fertilisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Feinstein
Feinstein
18,844 corpus weight
- ferrures
ferrures
18,842 corpus weight
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
- feue
feue
18,840 corpus weight
- fieffé
fieffé
18,839 corpus weight
- figurément
figurément
18,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fertilisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fertilisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.ti.li.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fertilisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fertilisant is uncommon French at frequency #81,160 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛʁ.ti.li.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui fertilise, qui est propre à fertiliser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fertilisant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fertilisant, spelled F-E-R-T-I-L-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fertilise, qui est propre à fertiliser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fertilisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Engrais fertilisants.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).