reluisant
\ʁə.lɥi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“reluisant” is uncommon French (frequency #52,945 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,945
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui reluit, qui a une apparence soignée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reluisant · reluisant · French
reluisant · rank #52,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,945
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH religious
Nearest frequency peer: religious (-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 « reluisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- register
register
47,059 corpus weight
- reiner
reiner
47,058 corpus weight
- religious
religious
47,057 corpus weight
- reluisant
reluisant
47,056 corpus weight
- relèverait
relèverait
47,055 corpus weight
- reply
reply
47,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reluisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reluisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɥi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reluisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reluisant is uncommon French at frequency #52,945 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.lɥi.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
reluisant has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is reluisant, spelled R-E-L-U-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui reluit, qui a une apparence soignée.
- 2(Principalement utilisé dans une phrase négative)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reluisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais Jacquotte était une infatigable plieuse de linge, par caractère frotteuse de meubles, amoureuse d'une propreté tout ecclésiastique, la plus minutieuse, la plus reluisante, la plus douce des propretés.
Il la rejoignit dans une étable reluisante qui semblait une écurie de cirque.
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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