relâchant
\ʁə.la.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“relâchant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,158 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,158
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de relâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relachant · relâchant · French
relâchant · rank #70,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,158
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rendezvous
Nearest frequency peer: Rendezvous (+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 « relâchant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reflétaient
reflétaient
29,846 corpus weight
- relâchant
relâchant
29,843 corpus weight
- Rendezvous
Rendezvous
29,842 corpus weight
- renflement
renflement
29,841 corpus weight
- rentrerais
rentrerais
29,840 corpus weight
- reposa
reposa
29,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « relâchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relâchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.la.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « relâchant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
relâchant is uncommon French at frequency #70,158 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.la.ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de relâcher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for relâchant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is relâchant, spelled R-E-L-Â-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de relâcher.
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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