rutilant
\ʁy.ti.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“rutilant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,435 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,435
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’un rouge éclatant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rutilant · rutilant · French
rutilant · rank #82,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,435
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rushs
Nearest frequency peer: rushs (-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 « rutilant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rosalia
Rosalia
17,569 corpus weight
- ruinerait
ruinerait
17,568 corpus weight
- rushs
rushs
17,567 corpus weight
- rutilant
rutilant
17,566 corpus weight
- râtelier
râtelier
17,565 corpus weight
- réadapter
réadapter
17,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rutilant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rutilant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁy.ti.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rutilant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rutilant is uncommon French at frequency #82,435 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁy.ti.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rutilant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rutilant, spelled R-U-T-I-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’un rouge éclatant.
- 2Qui brille d’un vif éclat.
- 3Qualifie la couleur des vapeurs qu’exhale l’oxyde nitrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rutilant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La physionomie d’Alfred, ordinairement si grave, si recueillie et dernièrement si abattue, était rayonnante, jubilante, rutilante.
Il y a de la pourpre dans l'orgueil des humbles : nul sang n'est d'un rouge plus rutilant que celui des martyrs, il fume de fierté.
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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