pesantes
\pə.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“pesantes” is uncommon French (frequency #84,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de pesant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pesantes · pesantes · French
pesantes · rank #84,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,161
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persistes
Nearest frequency peer: persistes (-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 « pesantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- permuter
permuter
15,843 corpus weight
- persistera
persistera
15,842 corpus weight
- persistes
persistes
15,841 corpus weight
- pesantes
pesantes
15,840 corpus weight
- Pessah
Pessah
15,839 corpus weight
- pestiféré
pestiféré
15,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pesantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pesantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pə.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pesantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pesantes is uncommon French at frequency #84,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pə.zɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de pesant.".
pesantes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pesantes, spelled P-E-S-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de pesant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pesantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le domaine économique où les contraintes sont plus pesantes, des progrès décisifs ont été accomplis. La rigueur monétaire du gouvernement bleu a eu, au moins, pour mérite de "dédollariser" l’économie et de stabiliser le Lev.
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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