goûtant
\ɡu.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“goûtant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,556 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,556
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de goûter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goutant · goûtant · French
goûtant · rank #71,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,556
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gouy
Nearest frequency peer: Gouy (-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 « goûtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goret
goret
28,448 corpus weight
- Gothic
Gothic
28,447 corpus weight
- Gouy
Gouy
28,446 corpus weight
- goûtant
goûtant
28,445 corpus weight
- griots
griots
28,443 corpus weight
- grossièretés
grossièretés
28,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goûtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goûtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡu.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goûtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goûtant is uncommon French at frequency #71,556 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡu.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de goûter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for goûtant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 goûtant, spelled G-O-Û-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de goûter.
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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