tordent
\tɔʁd\
The verdict
“tordent” is uncommon French (frequency #76,181 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,181
- 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 tordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tordent · tordent · French
tordent · rank #76,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,181
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tortueuses
Nearest frequency peer: tortueuses (+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 « tordent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tirlemont
Tirlemont
23,823 corpus weight
- tordent
tordent
23,820 corpus weight
- tortueuses
tortueuses
23,819 corpus weight
- transféra
transféra
23,818 corpus weight
- transplanter
transplanter
23,817 corpus weight
- transposable
transposable
23,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tordent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tordent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tordent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tordent is uncommon French at frequency #76,181 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tordent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tordent, spelled T-O-R-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tordre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tordre.
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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