offensent
\ɔ.fɑ̃s\
The verdict
“offensent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,228 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,228
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de offenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensent · offensent · French
offensent · rank #97,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,228
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oficial
Nearest frequency peer: oficial (+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 « offensent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Néris
Néris
2,777 corpus weight
- obsèdent
obsèdent
2,776 corpus weight
- offensent
offensent
2,773 corpus weight
- oficial
oficial
2,772 corpus weight
- Oldenburg
Oldenburg
2,771 corpus weight
- oliphant
oliphant
2,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « offensent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offensent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « offensent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
offensent is uncommon French at frequency #97,228 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.fɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for offensent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is offensent, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de offenser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de offenser.
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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