scintillent
\sɛ̃.tij\
The verdict
“scintillent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,728 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,728
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de scintiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scintillent · scintillent · French
scintillent · rank #72,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,728
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scintiller
Nearest frequency peer: scintiller (+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 « scintillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sauveront
sauveront
27,276 corpus weight
- saya
saya
27,275 corpus weight
- scintillent
scintillent
27,273 corpus weight
- scintiller
scintiller
27,272 corpus weight
- scottie
scottie
27,271 corpus weight
- sectionner
sectionner
27,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scintillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scintillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.tij\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scintillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scintillent is uncommon French at frequency #72,728 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ̃.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scintillent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 scintillent, spelled S-C-I-N-T-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de scintiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de scintiller.
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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