outrageant
\u.tʁa.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“outrageant” is uncommon French (frequency #87,915 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,915
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui outrage quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outrageant · outrageant · French
outrageant · rank #87,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,915
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orangistes
Nearest frequency peer: orangistes (-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 « outrageant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oppressés
oppressés
12,088 corpus weight
- orangistes
orangistes
12,087 corpus weight
- outrageant
outrageant
12,086 corpus weight
- overland
overland
12,085 corpus weight
- oxyder
oxyder
12,084 corpus weight
- oxygéner
oxygéner
12,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outrageant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outrageant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.tʁa.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outrageant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outrageant is uncommon French at frequency #87,915 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \u.tʁa.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui outrage quelque chose.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for outrageant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is outrageant, spelled O-U-T-R-A-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui outrage quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outrageant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ainsi, vous ne savez pas la main qui vous pousse à cet acte outrageant et coupable d’enlever sur une grande route une jeune fille à ses compagnons ?
Enfin, au théâtre même, la célèbre diva tenait sur Christine les propos les plus outrageants et essayait de lui causer mille petits désagréments.
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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