revêtant
\ʁə.vɛ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“revêtant” is uncommon French (frequency #68,618 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de revêtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revetant · revêtant · French
revêtant · rank #68,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,618
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retranchement
Nearest frequency peer: retranchement (-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 « revêtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renverrait
renverrait
31,386 corpus weight
- ressortit
ressortit
31,385 corpus weight
- retrancheme…
retranchement
31,384 corpus weight
- revêtant
revêtant
31,383 corpus weight
- Rhein
Rhein
31,382 corpus weight
- Ricœur
Ricœur
31,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « revêtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revêtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.vɛ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « revêtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
revêtant is uncommon French at frequency #68,618 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.vɛ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de revêtir.".
revêtant has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is revêtant, spelled R-E-V-Ê-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de revêtir.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).