pétant
The verdict
“pétant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,031 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,031
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très vif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petant · pétant · French
pétant · rank #64,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,031
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pâtures
Nearest frequency peer: pâtures (-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 « pétant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyrotechniq…
pyrotechniques
35,972 corpus weight
- pâtures
pâtures
35,971 corpus weight
- pétant
pétant
35,970 corpus weight
- Pézenas
Pézenas
35,969 corpus weight
- quads
quads
35,968 corpus weight
- questeur
questeur
35,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétant is uncommon French at frequency #64,031 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pétant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pétant, spelled P-É-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Très vif.
- 2Exact.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils se les caillaient sur un trottoir entre deux réverbères depuis plus d'une heure, en face d'un restau dont la vitrine s'ornait d'une tête de dragon multicolore et d'un aquarium aux poissons également aussi généreux en couleurs pétantes qu'un « ensemble » de Karine.
Le dernier métro au départ de Charpennes pour la Gare d'Oullins part à 21h15 pétante.
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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