lent
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,840
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas rapide dans ses mouvements, dans ses actions, qui n’agit pas avec promptitude. Pronounced \lɑ̃\. It ranks #6,840 in French word frequency. Often confused with LT and les.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lent is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,840 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lent, with forms such as "elnt", "lennt", and "lentt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LT", "les", "lit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lent, spelled L-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas rapide dans ses mouvements, dans ses actions, qui n’agit pas avec promptitude.
- 2Qualifie certains mouvements qui manquent de vivacité.
- 3Qualifie certaines facultés et de certaines choses dont l’action ou l’effet manque de promptitude.
- 4Qui se déroule dans un temps fort long.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elnt,lennt,lentt,letn,llent,lnet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lent
Misspelling Variants of "lent"
Frequency rank: #6,840 in French
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Nearby French words
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