ôtant
\o.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“ôtant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,899), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,899
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de ôter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otant · ôtant · French
ôtant · rank #64,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,899
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ô" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH étends
Nearest frequency peer: étends (-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 « ôtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émoussé
émoussé
35,107 corpus weight
- épanouissant
épanouissant
35,106 corpus weight
- épinard
épinard
35,105 corpus weight
- épouvantails
épouvantails
35,104 corpus weight
- étends
étends
35,103 corpus weight
- ôtant
ôtant
35,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ôtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ôtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ôtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ôtant is uncommon French at frequency #64,899, classed as averb, transcribed \o.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de ôter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ôtant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ôtant, spelled Ô-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de ôter.
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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