peinant
\pɛ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“peinant” is uncommon French (frequency #93,082 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,082
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peinant · peinant · French
peinant · rank #93,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,082
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peindra
Nearest frequency peer: peindra (+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 « peinant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PEB
PEB
6,923 corpus weight
- peinant
peinant
6,919 corpus weight
- peindra
peindra
6,918 corpus weight
- perlimpinpin
perlimpinpin
6,917 corpus weight
- permissif
permissif
6,916 corpus weight
- persuadant
persuadant
6,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peinant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peinant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peinant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peinant is uncommon French at frequency #93,082 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for peinant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is peinant, spelled P-E-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui peine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peinant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en revoyait la pauvre coursive noire de charbon, le carré dont on touchait le plafond de la main, avec sa table de bois entaillée de coups de canif et qui sentait la saumure et la gnôle, les cabestans ahanants et peinants, le mât, l’unique mât, si frêle au-dessus de la proue avec les feux vert et rouge au bout de ses bras.
Ni le tumulte plaintif de la nature peinante, ni le cri de souffrance de l’humanité douloureuse ne furent primitivement perçus du cerveau subtil aux écoutes.
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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