postulent
\pɔs.tyl\
The verdict
“postulent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,547 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,547
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de postuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postulent · postulent · French
postulent · rank #59,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,547
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponant
Nearest frequency peer: ponant (-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 « postulent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- politisée
politisée
40,457 corpus weight
- polynôme
polynôme
40,456 corpus weight
- ponant
ponant
40,455 corpus weight
- postulent
postulent
40,454 corpus weight
- primary
primary
40,453 corpus weight
- procédurale
procédurale
40,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔs.tyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postulent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postulent is uncommon French at frequency #59,547 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔs.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for postulent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is postulent, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de postuler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de postuler.
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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