martelant
\maʁ.tə.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“martelant” is uncommon French (frequency #83,143 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,143
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de marteler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martelant · martelant · French
martelant · rank #83,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,143
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marra
Nearest frequency peer: marra (-2 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 « martelant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mantras
mantras
16,863 corpus weight
- marmonnant
marmonnant
16,862 corpus weight
- Marmontel
Marmontel
16,861 corpus weight
- marra
marra
16,860 corpus weight
- martelant
martelant
16,858 corpus weight
- masturbant
masturbant
16,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « martelant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martelant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.tə.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « martelant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
martelant is uncommon French at frequency #83,143 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \maʁ.tə.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de marteler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for martelant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is martelant, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de marteler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how martelant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici : de jeunes silhouettes minces — françaises, Courrèges — aux croisées, se désignant un relief qu’elles ont suscité derrière les faubourgs du sud-est, s’écrient : « Piero della Francesca ! » en martelant la dernière syllabe. Débâtardisé, Piero.
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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