résonnant
\ʁe.zɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“résonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #86,145 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,145
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui renvoie le son.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resonnant · résonnant · French
résonnant · rank #86,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétractée
Nearest frequency peer: rétractée (+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 « résonnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- récidivent
récidivent
13,860 corpus weight
- récitée
récitée
13,859 corpus weight
- réjouisse
réjouisse
13,858 corpus weight
- résonnant
résonnant
13,856 corpus weight
- rétractée
rétractée
13,855 corpus weight
- rêvées
rêvées
13,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « résonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | résonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.zɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « résonnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
résonnant is uncommon French at frequency #86,145 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.zɔ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
résonnant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 résonnant, spelled R-É-S-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui renvoie le son.
- 2Qui rend un grand son, beaucoup de son.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how résonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette voûte, cette église est bien résonnante.
Ce salon n’est pas favorable à la musique, parce qu’il est trop résonnant.
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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