retombant
\ʁə.tɔ̃.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“retombant” is uncommon French (frequency #50,477 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,477
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe retomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retombant · retombant · French
retombant · rank #50,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,477
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resplendissan…
Nearest frequency peer: resplendissante (-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 « retombant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renégats
renégats
49,528 corpus weight
- repérages
repérages
49,527 corpus weight
- resplendiss…
resplendissante
49,525 corpus weight
- retombant
retombant
49,524 corpus weight
- revendue
revendue
49,522 corpus weight
- revitaliser
revitaliser
49,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retombant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retombant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɔ̃.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retombant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retombant is uncommon French at frequency #50,477 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tɔ̃.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe retomber.".
retombant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retombant, spelled R-E-T-O-M-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe retomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retombant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur sa tête, une coiffe aux larges plis retombant sur les épaules, le némès, est d’or incrusté de lapis-lazuli.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).