heurtant
^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“heurtant” is uncommon French (frequency #50,886 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,886
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de heurter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heurtant · heurtant · French
heurtant · rank #50,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,886
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heuristique
Nearest frequency peer: heuristique (-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 « heurtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hermétiques
hermétiques
49,118 corpus weight
- heuristique
heuristique
49,116 corpus weight
- heurtant
heurtant
49,115 corpus weight
- hollandaises
hollandaises
49,114 corpus weight
- hologrammes
hologrammes
49,113 corpus weight
- hooker
hooker
49,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heurtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heurtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heurtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heurtant is uncommon French at frequency #50,886 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de heurter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for heurtant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is heurtant, spelled H-E-U-R-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de heurter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heurtant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rose-Marie-Victoire craignait tant, en déplaisant à son époux, en le heurtant, de le désaffectionner, d’être privée de sa compagnie, qu’elle lui aurait sacrifié tout, même son oncle.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).