fumantes
\fy.mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fumantes” is uncommon French (frequency #82,052 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,052
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fumant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumantes · fumantes · French
fumantes · rank #82,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,052
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumants
Nearest frequency peer: fumants (+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 « fumantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Friedel
Friedel
17,953 corpus weight
- frustrées
frustrées
17,951 corpus weight
- fumantes
fumantes
17,949 corpus weight
- fumants
fumants
17,948 corpus weight
- fumigation
fumigation
17,947 corpus weight
- fustigent
fustigent
17,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumantes is uncommon French at frequency #82,052 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.mɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fumant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fumantes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fumantes, spelled F-U-M-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fumant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fumantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment se fait-il que l’Alhambra de nougat conserve intactes ses délicates aiguilles et ne tombe pas en ruines, que la compote soit assez patiente pour ne pas s’évader à travers les barreaux de pâte de la tarte, que le saint-honoré tremblant et mollasse ne devienne pas une informe bouillie semblable à de la neige longtemps piétinée, que le godiveau, cont…
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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