abritant
\a.bʁi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“abritant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe abriter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abritant · abritant · French
abritant · rank #22,147 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,147
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abaissement
Nearest frequency peer: abaissement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « abritant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étendait
étendait
77,858 corpus weight
- abaissement
abaissement
77,855 corpus weight
- abritant
abritant
77,854 corpus weight
- accentué
accentué
77,852 corpus weight
- accommoder
accommoder
77,851 corpus weight
- accordéon
accordéon
77,850 corpus weight
What this shows « abritant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abritant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bʁi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abritant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abritant (IPA \a.bʁi.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,147 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe abriter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abritant, with forms such as "abbritant", "abirtant", and "abriatnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "agitant", "arrivant", "arrêtant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 abritant, spelled A-B-R-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe abriter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abritant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était là que nous entreposions des voitures, des motos et des bicyclettes abandonnées, volées, retrouvées et pas réclamées, et rangions nos véhicules cassés, la cahute en ciment abritant des foultitudes d’objets illicites, tels revolvers, carabines, couteaux de toutes sortes, pilules, poudres et herbes de toutes autres sortes, publications cochonnes (de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbritant
- abirtant
- abriatnt
- abritannt
- abritantt
- abritatn
- abritnat
- abrittant
- abrritant
- abrtiant
- arbitant
- baritant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abritant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).