illuminant
\i.ly.mi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“illuminant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,729 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,729
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui illumine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illuminant · illuminant · French
illuminant · rank #70,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,729
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ilia
Nearest frequency peer: ilia (-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 « illuminant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Héricourt
Héricourt
29,277 corpus weight
- idiomes
idiomes
29,275 corpus weight
- ilia
ilia
29,273 corpus weight
- illuminant
illuminant
29,272 corpus weight
- imbécilité
imbécilité
29,270 corpus weight
- immaculés
immaculés
29,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illuminant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illuminant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ly.mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illuminant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illuminant is uncommon French at frequency #70,729 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ly.mi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui illumine.".
illuminant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is illuminant, spelled I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui illumine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illuminant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois fabricants de gaz à la résine ont demandé des commissaires à la Société d’encouragement. Ces commissaires n’ont pu constater que la propriété illuminante des gaz, comparée à celui ^([sic : celle]) de la houille. Nous aurons occasion de reproduire plus bas les rapports des commissaires sur ce chef. Mais, d’avance, nous pouvons dire que les propriétés…
Là-haut, sur ma tête, s’étalait, pleine et large, une grande lune illuminante au milieu d’un ciel bleuâtre et laiteux.
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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