showing
\ˈʃoʊ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“showing” is uncommon French (frequency #95,329 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,329
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de show.
Corpus desk
Index FR-showing · showing · French
showing · rank #95,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,329
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shrapnel
Nearest frequency peer: shrapnel (+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 « showing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shakespeari…
shakespearienne
4,674 corpus weight
- showing
showing
4,672 corpus weight
- shrapnel
shrapnel
4,671 corpus weight
- siennois
siennois
4,670 corpus weight
- siffleur
siffleur
4,669 corpus weight
- Sikasso
Sikasso
4,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « showing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | showing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃoʊ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « showing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
showing is uncommon French at frequency #95,329 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃoʊ.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de show.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for showing, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 showing, spelled S-H-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de show.
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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