raillant
\ʁɑ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“raillant” is uncommon French (frequency #99,539 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,539
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de railler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raillant · raillant · French
raillant · rank #99,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,539
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raidir
Nearest frequency peer: raidir (-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 « raillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- racée
racée
466 corpus weight
- raidir
raidir
463 corpus weight
- raillant
raillant
462 corpus weight
- rassurons
rassurons
461 corpus weight
- Ratte
Ratte
460 corpus weight
- ravitaillé
ravitaillé
459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raillant is uncommon French at frequency #99,539 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɑ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de railler.".
raillant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 raillant, spelled R-A-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de railler.
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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