foisonnent
\fwa.zɔn\
The verdict
“foisonnent” is uncommon French (frequency #63,002 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,002
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de foisonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foisonnent · foisonnent · French
foisonnent · rank #63,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,002
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH focalisés
Nearest frequency peer: focalisés (-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 « foisonnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filous
filous
37,002 corpus weight
- foc
foc
37,001 corpus weight
- focalisés
focalisés
37,000 corpus weight
- foisonnent
foisonnent
36,999 corpus weight
- Formose
Formose
36,998 corpus weight
- fourberies
fourberies
36,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foisonnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foisonnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fwa.zɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foisonnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foisonnent is uncommon French at frequency #63,002 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fwa.zɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for foisonnent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is foisonnent, spelled F-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de foisonner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de foisonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foisonnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour passer en revue ces églises embellies, ce qui signifie, dans l’esprit des contemporains, « dégothicisées », qui foisonnent depuis la mort de Louis XIV jusqu’à la Révolution, il est préférable de substituer à l’ordre chronologique que nous avons suivi jusqu'à présent, un classement topographique.
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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