régressent
\ʁe.ɡʁɛs\
The verdict
“régressent” is uncommon French (frequency #78,825 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,825
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe régresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regressent · régressent · French
régressent · rank #78,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,825
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répétais
Nearest frequency peer: répétais (+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 « régressent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réactivée
réactivée
21,180 corpus weight
- réaffecté
réaffecté
21,179 corpus weight
- réanimé
réanimé
21,178 corpus weight
- régressent
régressent
21,176 corpus weight
- répétais
répétais
21,175 corpus weight
- résidera
résidera
21,172 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « régressent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régressent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « régressent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
régressent is uncommon French at frequency #78,825 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ɡʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for régressent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is régressent, spelled R-É-G-R-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe régresser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe régresser.
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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