répandant
\ʁe.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“répandant” is uncommon French (frequency #54,240 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,240
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de répandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repandant · répandant · French
répandant · rank #54,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,240
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réinventé
Nearest frequency peer: réinventé (-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 « répandant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réemploi
réemploi
45,764 corpus weight
- réglait
réglait
45,763 corpus weight
- réinventé
réinventé
45,762 corpus weight
- répandant
répandant
45,761 corpus weight
- répliqua
répliqua
45,760 corpus weight
- rétorsion
rétorsion
45,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « répandant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | répandant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « répandant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
répandant is uncommon French at frequency #54,240 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de répandre.".
répandant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is répandant, spelled R-É-P-A-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de répandre.
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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