suintant

\sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\

/\sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“suintant” is uncommon French (frequency #96,417 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,417
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui suinte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suintant · suintant · French

suintant · rank #96,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,417
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH suicida

Nearest frequency peer: suicida (-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 « suintant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suintant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for suintant
PropertyValue
Headwordsuintant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#96,417
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « suintant » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).suintanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « suicida » (#96,416), « sulfurisé » (#96,418), « suggestifs » (#96,415). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suintant » est au #96,417. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

suintant is uncommon French at frequency #96,417 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui suinte.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for suintant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suintant, spelled S-U-I-N-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui suinte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suintant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle ne sortait jamais de sa maison, un ancien couvent, vaste et humide où elle devait se déplacer en plein jour le long des murs suintants de galeries interminables, une bougie à la main.
  2. Lo… installait maintenant sur le sol une planche noire, suintante d'humidité, souillée et gluante des vomissures laissées sans doute par d'autres « clients ».

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suintant"?
"suintant" is spelled S-U-I-N-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\.
What does "suintant" mean?
As an adjective, "suintant" means: Qui suinte.
How do you pronounce "suintant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suintant" is \sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suintant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list