fumants
\fy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“fumants” is uncommon French (frequency #82,053 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,053
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fumant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumants · fumants · French
fumants · rank #82,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,053
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumantes
Nearest frequency peer: fumantes (-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 « fumants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- gadoue
gadoue
17,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumants is uncommon French at frequency #82,053 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fumant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fumants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fumants, spelled F-U-M-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fumant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ses narines surgissent ici et là, à quoi qu’il soit occupé, des croches de parfums surannés, l’odeur des pelures de reinettes ou des zestes de peaux d’orange que sa grand-mère laissait brûler sur le dessus de la cuisinière pour chasser les miasmes microbiens et les esprits malins ou pour embaumer la pièce, et celle, puissante, corsée, qui excite et dila…
Des goëlands tournent en criant sur les lagunes, une cloche tinte et, parmi les toits fumants, se dresse un cyprès solitaire.
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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