infiltrent
\ɛ̃.filtʁ\
The verdict
“infiltrent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,366 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,366
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de infiltrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infiltrent · infiltrent · French
infiltrent · rank #55,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,366
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inexécution
Nearest frequency peer: inexécution (-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 « infiltrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indécentes
indécentes
44,638 corpus weight
- indéterminé…
indéterminées
44,637 corpus weight
- inexécution
inexécution
44,636 corpus weight
- infiltrent
infiltrent
44,635 corpus weight
- inhibe
inhibe
44,633 corpus weight
- initialisat…
initialisation
44,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « infiltrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infiltrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.filtʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « infiltrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
infiltrent is uncommon French at frequency #55,366 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.filtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for infiltrent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is infiltrent, spelled I-N-F-I-L-T-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de infiltrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de infiltrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infiltrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les terres en général sont froides et compactes ; les eaux pluviales s’y infiltrent lentement et les rendent fort humides pendant l’hiver et le printemps ; on les désigne, dans le pays, sous le nom de gruette et de bournais.
Le retour des pluies automnales à Paris, voilà le timing parfait pour parler des eaux d’exhaure, aussi appelées eaux de ruissellement. Ce sont les eaux de pluie, des nappes phréatiques ou des crues qui s’infiltrent dans tout ouvrage souterrain.
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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