spinning
\ˈspɪ.nɪŋ\
The verdict
“spinning” is uncommon French (frequency #68,662 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,662
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to spin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spinning · spinning · French
spinning · rank #68,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,662
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spinner
Nearest frequency peer: spinner (-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 « spinning »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sparta
sparta
31,341 corpus weight
- spinner
spinner
31,340 corpus weight
- spinning
spinning
31,339 corpus weight
- Spitzer
Spitzer
31,338 corpus weight
- stabilisées
stabilisées
31,337 corpus weight
- Stadt
Stadt
31,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spinning » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈspɪ.nɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spinning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spinning is uncommon French at frequency #68,662 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈspɪ.nɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to spin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for spinning in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 spinning, spelled S-P-I-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to spin.
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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