trempant
\tʁɑ̃.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“trempant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,185 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,185
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de tremper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trempant · trempant · French
trempant · rank #88,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,185
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transparences
Nearest frequency peer: transparences (-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 « trempant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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11,817 corpus weight
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trempant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trempant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trempant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trempant is uncommon French at frequency #88,185 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de tremper.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trempant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is trempant, spelled T-R-E-M-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de tremper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trempant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenez 500 gr. de pâte à baba, déjà levée, rompez-la et avec elle emplissez à moitié des petits moules à baba beurrés, rangez les moules sur des plaques, faites lever la pâte jusqu’à la hauteur des bords et cuisez-les à four chaud; en les sortant du four, siropez les gâteaux avec un sirop au Madère chaud ou au rhum, en les trempant entièrement, et faites-…
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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