tonnant
The verdict
“tonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,278 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,278
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonnant · tonnant · French
tonnant · rank #92,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,278
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tones
Nearest frequency peer: tones (-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 « tonnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tohoku
Tohoku
7,727 corpus weight
- tones
tones
7,724 corpus weight
- tonnant
tonnant
7,723 corpus weight
- torturant
torturant
7,722 corpus weight
- touille
touille
7,721 corpus weight
- toussant
toussant
7,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonnant is uncommon French at frequency #92,278 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tonnant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 tonnant, spelled T-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui tonne.
- 2Qualifie une voix forte et éclatante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jupiter tonnant.
Il s’en faut même de peu que, pour être mieux conforme à cette image du Destin, la séance ne se soit pas effectivement terminée par une intervention de Jupiter tonnant : l’inflammation soudaine d’une quantité trop grande de magnésium provoqua une petite explosion qui jeta la pagaïe dans L’Adoration des Bergers.
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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