terrent
\tɛʁ\
The verdict
“terrent” is uncommon French (frequency #94,333 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,333
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de terrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrent · terrent · French
terrent · rank #94,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,333
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrassée
Nearest frequency peer: terrassée (-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 « terrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TechCrunch
TechCrunch
5,672 corpus weight
- temporellem…
temporellement
5,671 corpus weight
- tentateur
tentateur
5,670 corpus weight
- terrassée
terrassée
5,669 corpus weight
- terrent
terrent
5,668 corpus weight
- thrill
thrill
5,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrent is uncommon French at frequency #94,333 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for terrent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 terrent, spelled T-E-R-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de terrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de terrer.
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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