régulant
\ʁe.ɡy.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“régulant” is uncommon French (frequency #71,035 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,035
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de réguler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regulant · régulant · French
régulant · rank #71,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,035
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récurer
Nearest frequency peer: récurer (-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 « régulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roulade
roulade
28,971 corpus weight
- Roum
Roum
28,970 corpus weight
- récurer
récurer
28,967 corpus weight
- régulant
régulant
28,966 corpus weight
- réinitialis…
réinitialisation
28,965 corpus weight
- révoqués
révoqués
28,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « régulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡy.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « régulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
régulant is uncommon French at frequency #71,035 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ɡy.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de réguler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for régulant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 régulant, spelled R-É-G-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de réguler.
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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