feuilletant
\fœ.jə.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“feuilletant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,997 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,997
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de feuilleter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feuilletant · feuilletant · French
feuilletant · rank #62,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,997
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 « feuilletant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fendant
fendant
37,006 corpus weight
- fesser
fesser
37,005 corpus weight
- feuilletant
feuilletant
37,004 corpus weight
- filmique
filmique
37,003 corpus weight
- filous
filous
37,002 corpus weight
- foc
foc
37,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feuilletant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feuilletant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fœ.jə.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feuilletant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feuilletant is uncommon French at frequency #62,997 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fœ.jə.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de feuilleter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for feuilletant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is feuilletant, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de feuilleter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feuilletant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais en feuilletant l’ouvrage de Sven Rayen, ou encore celui édité par Phaïdon, Tatouage, Une nouvelle génération d’artistes, on constate que certains fine line recouvrent des dos entiers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).