aggravant
\a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“aggravant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,962
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rend plus grave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aggravant · aggravant · French
aggravant · rank #33,962 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,962
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affirma
Nearest frequency peer: affirma (-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 « aggravant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Adrienne
Adrienne
66,042 corpus weight
- affectueuse…
affectueusement
66,041 corpus weight
- affirma
affirma
66,040 corpus weight
- aggravant
aggravant
66,039 corpus weight
- agronome
agronome
66,038 corpus weight
- aiguës
aiguës
66,036 corpus weight
What this shows « aggravant » 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 | aggravant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aggravant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around aggravant (IPA \a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,962 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui rend plus grave.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aggravant, with forms such as "aggarvant", "aggraavnt", and "aggravannt". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aggravent", "aggravante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aggravant, spelled A-G-G-R-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui rend plus grave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aggravant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des gens qui pensent que la spoliation perd toute son immoralité pourvu qu’elle soit légale. Quant à moi, je ne saurais imaginer une circonstance plus aggravante. Quoi qu’il en soit, ce qui est certain, c’est que les résultats économiques sont les mêmes.
En effet ces eaux [sulfureuses] sont tour à tour : 1° Aggravantes de la syphilis, c’est-à-dire qu’administrées seules, sans le secours des spécifiques, elles augmentent l’état morbide ; 2° Curatives, d’une façon apparente ; cette action, en effet, n’est due qu’aux médicaments spéciaux précédemment employés ; […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aggarvant
- aggraavnt
- aggravannt
- aggravantt
- aggravatn
- aggravnat
- aggravvant
- aggrravant
- aggrvaant
- agravant
- agrgavant
- gagravant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aggravant - 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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Same letter count
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