restreignent
\ʁɛs.tʁɛɲ\
The verdict
“restreignent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,589 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,589
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de restreindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restreignent · restreignent · French
restreignent · rank #62,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,589
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resplendissant
Nearest frequency peer: resplendissant (-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 « restreignent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- republié
republié
37,416 corpus weight
- respirons
respirons
37,414 corpus weight
- resplendiss…
resplendissant
37,413 corpus weight
- restreignent
restreignent
37,412 corpus weight
- retina
retina
37,410 corpus weight
- revendiquai…
revendiquaient
37,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « restreignent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restreignent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tʁɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « restreignent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
restreignent is uncommon French at frequency #62,589 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛs.tʁɛɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
restreignent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is restreignent, spelled R-E-S-T-R-E-I-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de restreindre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de restreindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how restreignent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles comptent les chances que leurs familles ont de survivre si elles les restreignent, et elles les restreignent depuis la fin de l’automne.
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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