focalisant
\fɔ.ka.li.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“focalisant” is uncommon French (frequency #53,352 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,352
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe focaliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-focalisant · focalisant · French
focalisant · rank #53,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,352
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondante
Nearest frequency peer: fondante (+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 « focalisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Firenze
Firenze
46,653 corpus weight
- flambé
flambé
46,652 corpus weight
- FLNC
FLNC
46,651 corpus weight
- focalisant
focalisant
46,649 corpus weight
- fondante
fondante
46,648 corpus weight
- foss
foss
46,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « focalisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | focalisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.ka.li.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « focalisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
focalisant is uncommon French at frequency #53,352 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ.ka.li.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe focaliser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for focalisant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 focalisant, spelled F-O-C-A-L-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe focaliser.
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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