suintant
\sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\
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
- subrogation
subrogation
3,587 corpus weight
- suggestifs
suggestifs
3,586 corpus weight
- suicida
suicida
3,585 corpus weight
- suintant
suintant
3,584 corpus weight
- sulfurisé
sulfurisé
3,583 corpus weight
- suprémacist…
suprémacistes
3,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suintant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suintant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suintant » en français
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
- 1Qui suinte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suintant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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