mordante
\mɔʁ.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“mordante” is uncommon French (frequency #63,182 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,182
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de mordant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mordante · mordante · French
mordante · rank #63,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,182
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montreraient
Nearest frequency peer: montreraient (-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 « mordante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modos
modos
36,824 corpus weight
- modélisatio…
modélisations
36,823 corpus weight
- moldu
moldu
36,822 corpus weight
- montreraient
montreraient
36,821 corpus weight
- mordante
mordante
36,819 corpus weight
- moustiquair…
moustiquaires
36,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mordante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mordante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mordante is uncommon French at frequency #63,182 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔʁ.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de mordant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mordante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mordante, spelled M-O-R-D-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de mordant.
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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