lancinante
\lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“lancinante” is uncommon French (frequency #52,785 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,785
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de lancinant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancinante · lancinante · French
lancinante · rank #52,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,785
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lallemand
Nearest frequency peer: Lallemand (-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 « lancinante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Koenig
Koenig
47,220 corpus weight
- krav
krav
47,219 corpus weight
- Lallemand
Lallemand
47,217 corpus weight
- lancinante
lancinante
47,216 corpus weight
- languir
languir
47,215 corpus weight
- lannes
lannes
47,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lancinante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancinante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lancinante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lancinante is uncommon French at frequency #52,785 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de lancinant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lancinante in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lancinante, spelled L-A-N-C-I-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de lancinant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lancinante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abraham, pris dans le nombre, suivait l’implacable marche en avant. Il sautillait d’un pied sur l’autre tout en avançant à la cadence de la lancinante rengaine. Il avait conscience d’être là, seul parmi des milliers, mais aussi de ne faire plus qu’un avec cet ensemble. Soudé à la multitude, comme s’ils constituaient tous le corps tentaculaire d’un gigante…
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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