friant
\fʁi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“friant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,648 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,648
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe frire ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-friant · friant · French
friant · rank #88,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,648
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fraudent
Nearest frequency peer: fraudent (-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 « friant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Francisca
Francisca
11,356 corpus weight
- frap
frap
11,355 corpus weight
- fraudent
fraudent
11,354 corpus weight
- friant
friant
11,353 corpus weight
- froidure
froidure
11,352 corpus weight
- frondeuse
frondeuse
11,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « friant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « friant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
friant is uncommon French at frequency #88,648 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe frire ^([1]).".
Zero misspellings are on record for friant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 friant, spelled F-R-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe frire ^([1]).
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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