questionnant
\kɛs.tjɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“questionnant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,723 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,723
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de questionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-questionnant · questionnant · French
questionnant · rank #64,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,723
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadriceps
Nearest frequency peer: quadriceps (-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 « questionnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatre
35,282 corpus weight
- pétrir
pétrir
35,280 corpus weight
- quadriceps
quadriceps
35,279 corpus weight
- questionnant
questionnant
35,278 corpus weight
- raccordée
raccordée
35,276 corpus weight
- radiés
radiés
35,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « questionnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | questionnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « questionnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
questionnant is uncommon French at frequency #64,723 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛs.tjɔ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de questionner.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for questionnant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is questionnant, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de questionner.
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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