terrassant
\tɛ.ʁa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“terrassant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,298 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,298
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui terrasse, qui abat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrassant · terrassant · French
terrassant · rank #75,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,298
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenders
Nearest frequency peer: tenders (-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 « terrassant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- temporalités
temporalités
24,706 corpus weight
- tenailles
tenailles
24,705 corpus weight
- tenders
tenders
24,704 corpus weight
- terrassant
terrassant
24,703 corpus weight
- tertres
tertres
24,702 corpus weight
- tessiture
tessiture
24,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrassant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrassant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrassant is uncommon French at frequency #75,298 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɛ.ʁa.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui terrasse, qui abat.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for terrassant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 terrassant, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui terrasse, qui abat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terrassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais je ne me rappelle pas une réflexion, pas une combinaison. Je me rappelle des sensations tourbillonnantes, quelque chose de brûlant, de frénétique, d’intolérable, une terrassante névralgie de tout mon être intime, une lancination continue, et, — grandissant, grandissant toujours, le rêve d’en finir, un projet de suicide...
This word in other languages
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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