hissant
^((h aspiré))\i.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“hissant” is uncommon French (frequency #67,579 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,579
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de hisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hissant · hissant · French
hissant · rank #67,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,579
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hijo
Nearest frequency peer: hijo (-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 « hissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Higelin
Higelin
32,424 corpus weight
- hijo
hijo
32,423 corpus weight
- hissant
hissant
32,422 corpus weight
- hissent
hissent
32,421 corpus weight
- horrifiés
horrifiés
32,420 corpus weight
- hoverboard
hoverboard
32,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hissant is uncommon French at frequency #67,579 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\i.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de hisser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hissant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hissant, spelled H-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de hisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première manière, en hissant l’oriflamme de la « modernité » cinématographique, esthétise donc une pratique que la seconde se contente de sociographier.
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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