propulsant
\pʁɔ.pyl.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“propulsant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,820 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,820
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de propulser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propulsant · propulsant · French
propulsant · rank #71,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,820
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promptitude
Nearest frequency peer: promptitude (-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 « propulsant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- privatives
privatives
28,183 corpus weight
- promptitude
promptitude
28,182 corpus weight
- propulsant
propulsant
28,181 corpus weight
- prostatique
prostatique
28,180 corpus weight
- prostituent
prostituent
28,179 corpus weight
- prosélytes
prosélytes
28,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « propulsant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | propulsant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pyl.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « propulsant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
propulsant is uncommon French at frequency #71,820 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.pyl.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de propulser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for propulsant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is propulsant, spelled P-R-O-P-U-L-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de propulser.
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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