terrorisant
\tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“terrorisant” is uncommon French (frequency #98,558 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,558
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui terrorise ; qui provoque ou institue la terreur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrorisant · terrorisant · French
terrorisant · rank #98,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,558
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tezuka
Nearest frequency peer: Tezuka (+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 « terrorisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tanna
tanna
1,448 corpus weight
- taxonomique
taxonomique
1,447 corpus weight
- terrorisant
terrorisant
1,443 corpus weight
- Tezuka
Tezuka
1,442 corpus weight
- thieves
thieves
1,440 corpus weight
- Thiriet
Thiriet
1,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrorisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrorisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrorisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrorisant is uncommon French at frequency #98,558 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui terrorise ; qui provoque ou institue la terreur.".
terrorisant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is terrorisant, spelled T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui terrorise ; qui provoque ou institue la terreur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terrorisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réaliste ou démagogique, mais toujours d'actualité, cette approche terrorisante de la dissuasion pénale enterre la thèse humaniste des Lumières que certains criminalistes soutenaient lorsqu'ils combattaient la pédagogie de l'effroi.
L'accent mis sur le risque, les mesures de prévention de plus en plus envahissantes signent la fin de la liberté et de la responsabilité individuelles. L'évidence sécuritaire, le précautionnisme sont des principes terrorisants, qui aboutissent à un inquiétant glissement des pouvoirs institués.
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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