régulent

\ʁe.ɡyl\

/\ʁe.ɡyl\/ verb

The verdict

“régulent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,611 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,611
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de réguler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-regulent · régulent · French

régulent · rank #59,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,611
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH régularisé

Nearest frequency peer: régularisé (-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 « régulent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « régulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for régulent
PropertyValue
Headwordrégulent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁe.ɡyl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#59,611
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « régulent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).régulenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « régularisé » (#59,610), « régressions » (#59,609), « répugnants » (#59,613). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « régulent » est au #59,611. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

régulent is uncommon French at frequency #59,611 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ɡyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

régulent has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 régulent, spelled R-É-G-U-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de réguler.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "régulent"?
"régulent" is spelled R-É-G-U-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.ɡyl\.
What does "régulent" mean?
As a verb, "régulent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de réguler.
How do you pronounce "régulent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "régulent" is \ʁe.ɡyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "régulent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "régulent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list