ruisselant
\ʁɥi.sə.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“ruisselant” is uncommon French (frequency #94,225 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,225
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ruisselle, en parlant d'un liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruisselant · ruisselant · French
ruisselant · rank #94,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,225
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rufo
Nearest frequency peer: rufo (-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 « ruisselant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- royans
royans
5,780 corpus weight
- Ruanda
Ruanda
5,779 corpus weight
- Rudel
Rudel
5,778 corpus weight
- rufo
rufo
5,777 corpus weight
- ruisselant
ruisselant
5,776 corpus weight
- réactionnel
réactionnel
5,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ruisselant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruisselant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɥi.sə.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ruisselant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ruisselant is uncommon French at frequency #94,225 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɥi.sə.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ruisselle, en parlant d'un liquide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ruisselant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ruisselant, spelled R-U-I-S-S-E-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ruisselle, en parlant d'un liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ruisselant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nuit était froide, ses habits étaient ruisselants, il avait besoin d’un feu et d’un lit.
Dans son coin, Paul Hans fredonnait une chanson en s’épongeant le cou, chassant à grands gestes les nuées de moute-moute qui s’acharnaient sur la peau ruisselante de son visage.
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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