offensante
\ɔ.fɑ̃.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“offensante” is uncommon French (frequency #75,052 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,052
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de offensant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensante · offensante · French
offensante · rank #75,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,052
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH odi
Nearest frequency peer: odi (-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 « offensante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- objecteurs
objecteurs
24,952 corpus weight
- obvious
obvious
24,951 corpus weight
- odi
odi
24,950 corpus weight
- offensante
offensante
24,949 corpus weight
- olympisme
olympisme
24,948 corpus weight
- omnes
omnes
24,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « offensante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offensante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « offensante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
offensante is uncommon French at frequency #75,052 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.fɑ̃.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de offensant.".
offensante has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is offensante, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de offensant.
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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