listening
\ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ\
The verdict
“listening” is uncommon French (frequency #69,202 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,202
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to listen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-listening · listening · French
listening · rank #69,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ligneuses
Nearest frequency peer: ligneuses (-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 « listening »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
- ligatures
ligatures
30,801 corpus weight
- ligneuses
ligneuses
30,800 corpus weight
- listening
listening
30,799 corpus weight
- livresque
livresque
30,798 corpus weight
- Louane
Louane
30,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « listening » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | listening |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « listening » en français
Rare enough to double-check
listening is uncommon French at frequency #69,202 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to listen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for listening in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is listening, spelled L-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to listen.
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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