patrouillant
\pa.tʁu.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“patrouillant” is uncommon French (frequency #93,076 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,076
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe patrouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patrouillant · patrouillant · French
patrouillant · rank #93,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,076
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parjures
Nearest frequency peer: parjures (-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 « patrouillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parfumeries
parfumeries
6,930 corpus weight
- Parisse
Parisse
6,929 corpus weight
- paritarisme
paritarisme
6,928 corpus weight
- parjures
parjures
6,927 corpus weight
- patrouillant
patrouillant
6,925 corpus weight
- PEB
PEB
6,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patrouillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patrouillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.tʁu.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patrouillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patrouillant is uncommon French at frequency #93,076 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.tʁu.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe patrouiller.".
patrouillant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 patrouillant, spelled P-A-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe patrouiller.
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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