radiant
\ʁa.djɑ̃\
The verdict
“radiant” is uncommon French (frequency #63,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui émet des radiations, des rayons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radiant · radiant · French
radiant · rank #63,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,278
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quintes
Nearest frequency peer: quintes (-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 « radiant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétrolifères
pétrolifères
36,726 corpus weight
- quarte
quarte
36,725 corpus weight
- quintes
quintes
36,724 corpus weight
- radiant
radiant
36,723 corpus weight
- ragot
ragot
36,722 corpus weight
- rajoutée
rajoutée
36,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radiant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radiant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.djɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radiant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radiant is uncommon French at frequency #63,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.djɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui émet des radiations, des rayons.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for radiant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 radiant, spelled R-A-D-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui émet des radiations, des rayons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radiant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout corps visible est radiant.
Chaleur radiante.
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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