ricanent
\ʁi.kan\
The verdict
“ricanent” is uncommon French (frequency #98,439 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,439
- 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 ricaner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricanent · ricanent · French
ricanent · rank #98,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retentissaient
Nearest frequency peer: retentissaient (-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 « ricanent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rescapées
rescapées
1,565 corpus weight
- reston
reston
1,564 corpus weight
- retentissai…
retentissaient
1,563 corpus weight
- ricanent
ricanent
1,562 corpus weight
- ripe
ripe
1,560 corpus weight
- ritaline
ritaline
1,559 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ricanent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricanent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.kan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ricanent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ricanent is uncommon French at frequency #98,439 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ricanent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ricanent, spelled R-I-C-A-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ricaner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ricaner.
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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