pourrissant
\pu.ʁi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pourrissant” is uncommon French (frequency #86,041 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en train de pourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourrissant · pourrissant · French
pourrissant · rank #86,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,041
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poutrer
Nearest frequency peer: poutrer (+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 « pourrissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- potassique
potassique
13,963 corpus weight
- poufiasse
poufiasse
13,962 corpus weight
- pourrissant
pourrissant
13,960 corpus weight
- poutrer
poutrer
13,959 corpus weight
- powerful
powerful
13,958 corpus weight
- prati
prati
13,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pourrissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourrissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pu.ʁi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourrissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourrissant is uncommon French at frequency #86,041 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pu.ʁi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est en train de pourrir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pourrissant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pourrissant, spelled P-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est en train de pourrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourrissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce champignon pousse typiquement sur du bois pourrissant.
Elle n’avait plus demandé de miroir : son visage de moribonde n’existait pas pour elle. Elle reposait et rêvait, à une distance infinie de sa chair pourrissante, les oreilles remplies du bruit de nos mensonges et tout entière ramassée dans un espoir passionné : guérir.
This word in other languages
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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