pivotant
\pi.vɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“pivotant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une racine qui s’enfonce verticalement dans le sol, et qui est très grosse par rapport aux radicelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pivotant · pivotant · French
pivotant · rank #62,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pivoine
Nearest frequency peer: pivoine (-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 « pivotant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pilotez
pilotez
37,477 corpus weight
- pilots
pilots
37,476 corpus weight
- pivoine
pivoine
37,475 corpus weight
- pivotant
pivotant
37,474 corpus weight
- plaindra
plaindra
37,473 corpus weight
- pléistocène
pléistocène
37,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pivotant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pivotant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.vɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pivotant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pivotant is uncommon French at frequency #62,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pi.vɔ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pivotant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pivotant, spelled P-I-V-O-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une racine qui s’enfonce verticalement dans le sol, et qui est très grosse par rapport aux radicelles.
- 2Qualifie la conversion d’un corps d’armée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pivotant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La carotte a une racine pivotante.
Le mouvement pivotant de l’ennemi.
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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