formulant
\fɔʁ.my.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“formulant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,527 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,527
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de formuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formulant · formulant · French
formulant · rank #71,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,527
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fissurée
Nearest frequency peer: fissurée (-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 « formulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finding
finding
28,477 corpus weight
- Firminy
Firminy
28,476 corpus weight
- fissurée
fissurée
28,475 corpus weight
- formulant
formulant
28,474 corpus weight
- foro
foro
28,473 corpus weight
- fourmillent
fourmillent
28,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « formulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.my.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formulant is uncommon French at frequency #71,527 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔʁ.my.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de formuler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for formulant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 formulant, spelled F-O-R-M-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de formuler.
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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