suspendant
\sys.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“suspendant” is uncommon French (frequency #56,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de suspendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suspendant · suspendant · French
suspendant · rank #56,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,299
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Susanne
Nearest frequency peer: Susanne (-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 « suspendant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- survienne
survienne
43,705 corpus weight
- Susanna
Susanna
43,704 corpus weight
- Susanne
Susanne
43,703 corpus weight
- suspendant
suspendant
43,702 corpus weight
- symptomatiq…
symptomatiques
43,701 corpus weight
- synapses
synapses
43,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suspendant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suspendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sys.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suspendant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suspendant is uncommon French at frequency #56,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sys.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de suspendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for suspendant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 suspendant, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de suspendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suspendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« {…] On dit », renchérissait une blondine ruthène, suspendant un instant le toc-toc de son couteau, « que notre jeune empereur l’aime à la folie, et qu’en l’église des Augustins, sa main a tremblé en lui passant l’anneau au doigt ; alors Élisabeth a levé les yeux, et elle lui a souri. ».
– Le marin se leva, suspendant à son étroite mâture d’os le peu de chair que la vie lui avait épargné.
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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