sélectionnant
\se.lɛk.sjɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“sélectionnant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,168 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,168
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe sélectionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selectionnant · sélectionnant · French
sélectionnant · rank #51,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,168
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Syrte
Nearest frequency peer: Syrte (-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 « sélectionnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- symphoniques
symphoniques
48,836 corpus weight
- Syrte
Syrte
48,834 corpus weight
- sélectionna…
sélectionnant
48,833 corpus weight
- sémiotique
sémiotique
48,832 corpus weight
- séparez
séparez
48,831 corpus weight
- tajine
tajine
48,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sélectionnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sélectionnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.lɛk.sjɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #51,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sélectionnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sélectionnant is uncommon French at frequency #51,168 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.lɛk.sjɔ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe sélectionner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sélectionnant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sélectionnant, spelled S-É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe sélectionner.
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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