héritant
\e.ʁi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“héritant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,772 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,772
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe hériter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heritant · héritant · French
héritant · rank #75,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hématite
Nearest frequency peer: hématite (-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 « héritant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hydrothérap…
hydrothérapie
24,232 corpus weight
- hyperboles
hyperboles
24,231 corpus weight
- hématite
hématite
24,230 corpus weight
- héritant
héritant
24,229 corpus weight
- immerge
immerge
24,228 corpus weight
- impatientent
impatientent
24,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « héritant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héritant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « héritant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
héritant is uncommon French at frequency #75,772 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʁi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe hériter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for héritant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is héritant, spelled H-É-R-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe hériter.
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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