flattant
\fla.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“flattant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,636 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,636
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de flatter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flattant · flattant · French
flattant · rank #88,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,636
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flamengo
Nearest frequency peer: flamengo (-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 « flattant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fissuration
fissuration
11,369 corpus weight
- flaco
flaco
11,367 corpus weight
- flamengo
flamengo
11,366 corpus weight
- flattant
flattant
11,365 corpus weight
- Flessingue
Flessingue
11,364 corpus weight
- floraisons
floraisons
11,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flattant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flattant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fla.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flattant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flattant is uncommon French at frequency #88,636 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fla.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de flatter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for flattant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flattant, spelled F-L-A-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de flatter.
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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