leaving
\ˈli.vɪŋ\
The verdict
“leaving” is uncommon French (frequency #67,657 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,657
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de leave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leaving · leaving · French
leaving · rank #67,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,657
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leading
Nearest frequency peer: leading (-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 « leaving »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laugh
laugh
32,348 corpus weight
- Lavilliers
Lavilliers
32,346 corpus weight
- leading
leading
32,345 corpus weight
- leaving
leaving
32,344 corpus weight
- Lecointre
Lecointre
32,343 corpus weight
- lega
lega
32,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leaving » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leaving |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈli.vɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leaving » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leaving is uncommon French at frequency #67,657 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈli.vɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de leave.".
No misspelling variants are generated for leaving in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is leaving, spelled L-E-A-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de leave.
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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