rongent
\ʁɔ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“rongent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,570
- 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 ronger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rongent · rongent · French
rongent · rank #55,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,570
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rivarol
Nearest frequency peer: Rivarol (-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 « rongent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ritournelle
ritournelle
44,433 corpus weight
- Rivarol
Rivarol
44,432 corpus weight
- rongent
rongent
44,431 corpus weight
- Roussy
Roussy
44,430 corpus weight
- routard
routard
44,429 corpus weight
- Rubicon
Rubicon
44,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rongent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rongent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rongent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rongent is uncommon French at frequency #55,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rongent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 rongent, spelled R-O-N-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ronger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ronger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rongent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De trop fortes pluies pourrissaient les semences, des coups de grêle hachaient le blé en herbe, un vent de foudre versait les tiges, deux mois de sécheresse maigrissaient les épis ; et c’étaient encore les insectes qui rongent, les froids qui tuent, des maladies sur le bétail, des lèpres de mauvaises plantes mangeant le sol : tout devenait une cause de ru…
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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