titubant
The verdict
“titubant” is uncommon French (frequency #67,165 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,165
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui chancelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-titubant · titubant · French
titubant · rank #67,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,165
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tissier
Nearest frequency peer: Tissier (-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 « titubant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timoré
timoré
32,839 corpus weight
- tiraillée
tiraillée
32,838 corpus weight
- Tissier
Tissier
32,837 corpus weight
- titubant
titubant
32,836 corpus weight
- Tixier
Tixier
32,835 corpus weight
- Tonino
Tonino
32,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « titubant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | titubant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « titubant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
titubant is uncommon French at frequency #67,165 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui chancelle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for titubant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is titubant, spelled T-I-T-U-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui chancelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how titubant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une petite pluie mince et tenace dégoulinait sans arrêt depuis la veille et les passants, recroquevillés sous leurs riflards, les yeux rivés sur le pavé en larmes, glissant peureusement parmi les files des voitures serrées, lui fournissaient l'impression vague de spectres titubants.
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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