sillonnant
\si.jɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“sillonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #73,558 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,558
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de sillonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sillonnant · sillonnant · French
sillonnant · rank #73,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,558
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signerai
Nearest frequency peer: signerai (-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 « sillonnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shinzo
Shinzo
26,446 corpus weight
- Sicilia
Sicilia
26,445 corpus weight
- signerai
signerai
26,444 corpus weight
- sillonnant
sillonnant
26,443 corpus weight
- skiables
skiables
26,442 corpus weight
- slug
slug
26,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sillonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sillonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.jɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sillonnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sillonnant is uncommon French at frequency #73,558 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.jɔ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de sillonner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sillonnant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 sillonnant, spelled S-I-L-L-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de sillonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sillonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sillonnant les pistes cyclables de la Capitale avec ses filles Juliette et Lila, Mikael Meulle, la quarantaine, est un véritable papa poule.
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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