modulant
\mɔ.dy.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“modulant” is uncommon French (frequency #87,852 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,852
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit une ou des modulations, constitue une modulation (un changement de tonalité).
Corpus desk
Index FR-modulant · modulant · French
modulant · rank #87,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,852
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moir
Nearest frequency peer: Moir (+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 « modulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- milites
milites
12,153 corpus weight
- minoré
minoré
12,152 corpus weight
- miserable
miserable
12,151 corpus weight
- modulant
modulant
12,149 corpus weight
- Moir
Moir
12,148 corpus weight
- monocoques
monocoques
12,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.dy.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modulant is uncommon French at frequency #87,852 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.dy.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
modulant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is modulant, spelled M-O-D-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui produit une ou des modulations, constitue une modulation (un changement de tonalité).
- 2Qualifie une chaudière conçue pour réguler la chaleur autour d’une température réglable par l’utilisateur.
- 3Qualifie une vanne permettant une régulation automatique de la pression et du débit délivrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant que l’on connatt la marche modulante des mélodies majeure et mineure, nous allons exposer, le plus clairement possible, comment on doit procéder pour parvenir à accompagner un chant quelconque par une harmonie pure et nombreuse.
La Pédale inférieure Dominante ou Tonique [de l’orgue] admet l’emploi des suspensions et des progressions harmoniques, ascendantes ou descendantes, non modulantes, et aussi, quelquefois, des progressions modulantes convergentes, quand celles-ci ne s’éloignent que d’un accident, de la tonalité dont la note Pédale est Tonique ou Dominante.
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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