serpentant
\sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“serpentant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,219 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,219
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui serpente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpentant · serpentant · French
serpentant · rank #75,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,219
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serbo
Nearest frequency peer: serbo (-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 « serpentant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- semez
semez
24,785 corpus weight
- sempiternel
sempiternel
24,784 corpus weight
- serbo
serbo
24,783 corpus weight
- serpentant
serpentant
24,782 corpus weight
- servilité
servilité
24,781 corpus weight
- sexo
sexo
24,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serpentant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpentant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serpentant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serpentant is uncommon French at frequency #75,219 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui serpente.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for serpentant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serpentant, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui serpente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serpentant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brie-Comte-Robert occupe le centre d’un grand plateau, légèrement onduleux, bordé par les pentes rapides de la vallée de l’Yères, qui l’enlace de son cours accidenté et serpentant.
La gouvernante fut aussitôt debout, saisit Jacquette par la main et l'entraîna hors de ce lieu. Mais, au moment de s'engager dans l'allée serpentante, elle se pencha en arrière et vit le profil du jeune Amour.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).