modernisant
\mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“modernisant” is uncommon French (frequency #86,932 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,932
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe moderniser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modernisant · modernisant · French
modernisant · rank #86,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,932
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mobilisait
Nearest frequency peer: mobilisait (-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 « modernisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Miya
Miya
13,072 corpus weight
- mièvrerie
mièvrerie
13,071 corpus weight
- mobilisait
mobilisait
13,070 corpus weight
- modernisant
modernisant
13,069 corpus weight
- modernisées
modernisées
13,068 corpus weight
- monothéismes
monothéismes
13,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modernisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modernisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modernisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modernisant is uncommon French at frequency #86,932 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe moderniser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for modernisant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is modernisant, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe moderniser.
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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