torturant
The verdict
“torturant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,279 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,279
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause un supplice, une torture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torturant · torturant · French
torturant · rank #92,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tonnant
Nearest frequency peer: tonnant (-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 « torturant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- trafiquée
trafiquée
7,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « torturant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torturant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « torturant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
torturant is uncommon French at frequency #92,279 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui cause un supplice, une torture.".
No misspelling variants are generated for torturant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 torturant, spelled T-O-R-T-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui cause un supplice, une torture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torturant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Carmen est morte, l’innocente et plaintive Carmen. Mais la chanson est plus vivante que jamais, plus impitoyable que jamais, plus torturante que jamais.
Là commençait l’angoisse, le problème torturant où il achevait de sombrer, lui prêtre, avec ses vœux d’homme chaste et de ministre de l’absurde, mis à l’écart des autres hommes.
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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