frappantes
\fʁa.pɑ̃t\
The verdict
“frappantes” is uncommon French (frequency #67,527 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,527
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de frappant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappantes · frappantes · French
frappantes · rank #67,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,527
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foutra
Nearest frequency peer: foutra (-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 « frappantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fontvieille
Fontvieille
32,478 corpus weight
- formerait
formerait
32,477 corpus weight
- foufoune
foufoune
32,476 corpus weight
- foutra
foutra
32,475 corpus weight
- frappantes
frappantes
32,474 corpus weight
- fratricides
fratricides
32,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frappantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frappantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁa.pɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frappantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frappantes is uncommon French at frequency #67,527 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁa.pɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de frappant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frappantes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frappantes, spelled F-R-A-P-P-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de frappant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frappantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Épictète, l’esclave devenu philosophe, est l’une des figures les plus frappantes de l’Antiquité.
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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