reniflant
\ʁə.ni.flɑ̃\
The verdict
“reniflant” is uncommon French (frequency #95,243 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,243
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reniflant · reniflant · French
reniflant · rank #95,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,243
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remuait
Nearest frequency peer: remuait (-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 « reniflant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- religio
religio
4,762 corpus weight
- remboursait
remboursait
4,761 corpus weight
- remettrez
remettrez
4,760 corpus weight
- remuait
remuait
4,759 corpus weight
- reniflant
reniflant
4,758 corpus weight
- repoussèrent
repoussèrent
4,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reniflant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reniflant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ni.flɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reniflant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reniflant is uncommon French at frequency #95,243 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ni.flɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nez.".
reniflant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is reniflant, spelled R-E-N-I-F-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Nez.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reniflant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici le sergent Médoc. Son reniflant prend chaque jour de la couleur.
C’te pauvre Amy, elle s’est cassé le nez en capotant à Croydon! Ça m’a fait quelque chose de la voir comme ça, avec un bout de taffetas gommé sur le reniflant.
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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