guettant
\ɡe.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“guettant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,882 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,882
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de guetter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guettant · guettant · French
guettant · rank #69,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,882
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guadeloupéenne
Nearest frequency peer: guadeloupéenne (-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 « guettant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gratifie
gratifie
30,123 corpus weight
- greens
greens
30,122 corpus weight
- guadeloupée…
guadeloupéenne
30,120 corpus weight
- guettant
guettant
30,119 corpus weight
- Guillain
Guillain
30,118 corpus weight
- guillemet
guillemet
30,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guettant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guettant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡe.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guettant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guettant is uncommon French at frequency #69,882 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡe.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de guetter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for guettant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
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 guettant, spelled G-U-E-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de guetter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guettant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, comme un grand fauve malade, il arpentait les allées le reste de la semaine, se dissimulant dans l’ombre d’un rack de stockage, guettant le moindre geste suspect, la moindre parole déplacée, furieux de ne rien découvrir, écœuré à l’idée de se faire berner à longueur de temps
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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