frappants
\fʁa.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“frappants” is uncommon French (frequency #70,659 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,659
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de frappant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappants · frappants · French
frappants · rank #70,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,659
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fraie
Nearest frequency peer: fraie (-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 « frappants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fluorescent…
fluorescentes
29,346 corpus weight
- Fortunat
Fortunat
29,344 corpus weight
- fraie
fraie
29,343 corpus weight
- frappants
frappants
29,342 corpus weight
- Friedland
Friedland
29,341 corpus weight
- frottait
frottait
29,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frappants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frappants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁa.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frappants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frappants is uncommon French at frequency #70,659 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁa.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de frappant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frappants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frappants, spelled F-R-A-P-P-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de frappant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frappants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le palau est loin d’être un cas isolé, même parmi les langues austronésiennes et plus spécifiquement par rapport aux langues micronésiennes dont il est le voisin géographique : yap, kusaïen, mokil (dialecte ponapéen), mais il est une des langues de la famille où ces faits sont les plus frappants.
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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