revenante
\ʁə.və.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“revenante” is uncommon French (frequency #89,090 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,090
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esprit qu’on suppose revenir de l’autre monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revenante · revenante · French
revenante · rank #89,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,090
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reveniez
Nearest frequency peer: reveniez (+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 « revenante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retranchent
retranchent
10,914 corpus weight
- retranscrits
retranscrits
10,913 corpus weight
- revenante
revenante
10,911 corpus weight
- reveniez
reveniez
10,910 corpus weight
- rhodia
rhodia
10,909 corpus weight
- richebourg
richebourg
10,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « revenante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revenante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.və.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « revenante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
revenante is uncommon French at frequency #89,090 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.və.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for revenante in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is revenante, spelled R-E-V-E-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Esprit qu’on suppose revenir de l’autre monde.
- 2Femme que l'on avait plus revue depuis longtemps au point qu'on aurait pu la croire disparue.
- 3Rescapée ; survivant qui revient.
- 4Citoyenne qui revient dans son pays d’origine après avoir combattu dans les rangs d’une organisation terroriste à l’étranger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how revenante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette fois, plus intrigué qu’agacé, il prit le temps de détailler la revenante qui lui faisait face.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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