pêchant
\pɛ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“pêchant” is uncommon French (frequency #91,069 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,069
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Approprié, efficace, pour la pêche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pechant · pêchant · French
pêchant · rank #91,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,069
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pélagique
Nearest frequency peer: pélagique (-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 « pêchant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- purpura
purpura
8,936 corpus weight
- pyrame
pyrame
8,935 corpus weight
- péjorativem…
péjorativement
8,934 corpus weight
- pélagique
pélagique
8,933 corpus weight
- pêchant
pêchant
8,932 corpus weight
- quadratiques
quadratiques
8,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pêchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pêchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pêchant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pêchant is uncommon French at frequency #91,069 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛ.ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Approprié, efficace, pour la pêche.".
pêchant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pêchant, spelled P-Ê-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Approprié, efficace, pour la pêche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pêchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le livre de François Boullet est un véritable mode d’emploi de la pêche à la traîne qui est la technique de pêche la plus simple, la plus pêchante et la plus populaire.
Pour être pêchantes, les écluses devaient attirer le poisson.
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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