pregnant
\ˈpɹɛɡ.nənt\
The verdict
“pregnant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enceinte (pour une femme) ou gravide (pour une femelle d’une autre espèce).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pregnant · pregnant · French
pregnant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pregnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpɹɛɡ.nənt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pregnant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpɹɛɡ.nənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pregnant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pregnant, spelled P-R-E-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Enceinte (pour une femme) ou gravide (pour une femelle d’une autre espèce).
- 2Prégnant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pregnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She’s pregnant.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.