improvisant
\ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“improvisant” is uncommon French (frequency #83,038 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,038
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de improviser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-improvisant · improvisant · French
improvisant · rank #83,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,038
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH improductives
Nearest frequency peer: improductives (-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 « improvisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- implantant
implantant
16,966 corpus weight
- impondérabl…
impondérables
16,965 corpus weight
- improductiv…
improductives
16,964 corpus weight
- improvisant
improvisant
16,963 corpus weight
- inadéquats
inadéquats
16,962 corpus weight
- incise
incise
16,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « improvisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | improvisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « improvisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
improvisant is uncommon French at frequency #83,038 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de improviser.".
improvisant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 improvisant, spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de improviser.
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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