stagnent
\staɡn\
The verdict
“stagnent” is uncommon French (frequency #50,522 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,522
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de stagner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stagnent · stagnent · French
stagnent · rank #50,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,522
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stagnante
Nearest frequency peer: stagnante (-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 « stagnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spies
spies
49,482 corpus weight
- squelettique
squelettique
49,481 corpus weight
- stagnante
stagnante
49,480 corpus weight
- stagnent
stagnent
49,479 corpus weight
- standardisés
standardisés
49,478 corpus weight
- steen
steen
49,477 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stagnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stagnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \staɡn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stagnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stagnent is uncommon French at frequency #50,522 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \staɡn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stagnent, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is stagnent, spelled S-T-A-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de stagner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de stagner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stagnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une deuxième défaite d’affilée pour les hommes de Peter Bosz, qui stagnent à la 5ᵉ place du classement de Ligue I, et voient revenir ceux de Philippe Clément à seulement deux petits points, à la 7ᵉ place.
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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