pourchassant
\puʁ.ʃa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pourchassant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,299 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de pourchasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourchassant · pourchassant · French
pourchassant · rank #97,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,299
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poulidor
Nearest frequency peer: Poulidor (-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 « pourchassant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- postmodernes
postmodernes
2,705 corpus weight
- potentiomèt…
potentiomètre
2,704 corpus weight
- Poulidor
Poulidor
2,703 corpus weight
- pourchassant
pourchassant
2,702 corpus weight
- pousserai
pousserai
2,701 corpus weight
- prefer
prefer
2,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pourchassant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourchassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \puʁ.ʃa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourchassant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourchassant is uncommon French at frequency #97,299 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \puʁ.ʃa.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de pourchasser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pourchassant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pourchassant, spelled P-O-U-R-C-H-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de pourchasser.
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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