scrutent
\skʁyt\
The verdict
“scrutent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,919 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,919
- 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 scruter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scrutent · scrutent · French
scrutent · rank #77,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,919
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scoubidou
Nearest frequency peer: scoubidou (-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 « scrutent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- schèmes
schèmes
22,084 corpus weight
- scoubidou
scoubidou
22,083 corpus weight
- scrutent
scrutent
22,082 corpus weight
- SDA
SDA
22,081 corpus weight
- seek
seek
22,080 corpus weight
- Sekou
Sekou
22,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scrutent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrutent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skʁyt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scrutent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scrutent is uncommon French at frequency #77,919 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \skʁyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for scrutent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scrutent, spelled S-C-R-U-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de scruter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de scruter.
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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