sanglotant
\sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“sanglotant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,196 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,196
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sanglote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanglotant · sanglotant · French
sanglotant · rank #75,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,196
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH santés
Nearest frequency peer: santés (+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 « sanglotant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Salou
Salou
24,810 corpus weight
- sanctifier
sanctifier
24,807 corpus weight
- sanglotant
sanglotant
24,805 corpus weight
- santés
santés
24,804 corpus weight
- sartorius
sartorius
24,802 corpus weight
- satyres
satyres
24,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanglotant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanglotant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanglotant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanglotant is uncommon French at frequency #75,196 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui sanglote.".
sanglotant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sanglotant, spelled S-A-N-G-L-O-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui sanglote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanglotant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il collait sa bouche sanglotante sur la peau de l’enfant.
Ma bonne est partie, dit Christine en recommençant à sangloter. MADAME DES ORMES. Ah ! c’est vrai ! Alors, viens tout de même comme tu es. M. DES ORMES. Elle ne peut pas aller chez Mme de Guibert sanglotante, décoiffée et chiffonnée.
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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