redescendant
\ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“redescendant” is uncommon French (frequency #78,798 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,798
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de redescendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redescendant · redescendant · French
redescendant · rank #78,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,798
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rediffusé
Nearest frequency peer: rediffusé (+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 « redescendant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recomposées
recomposées
21,206 corpus weight
- reconduites
reconduites
21,205 corpus weight
- redescendant
redescendant
21,203 corpus weight
- rediffusé
rediffusé
21,202 corpus weight
- redondantes
redondantes
21,201 corpus weight
- regarderons
regarderons
21,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redescendant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redescendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redescendant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redescendant is uncommon French at frequency #78,798 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de redescendre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for redescendant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is redescendant, spelled R-E-D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de redescendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how redescendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On traverse des bancs de marne jaune-grisâtre (862), en redescendant à Meseleros, qui est sur de gros bancs de calcaire compacte gris-jaunâtre (861).
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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