aggravant

\a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\

/\a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « aggravant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aggravant vs aggravent
89% similar
aggravant vs aggravante
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for aggravant
PropertyValue
Headwordaggravant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#33,962
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aggravant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aggravantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affirma » (#33,961), « agronome » (#33,963), « affectueusement » (#33,960). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aggravant » est au #33,962. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui rend plus grave.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aggravant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

aggarvant2aggraavnt2aggravannt1aggravantt1aggravatn2aggravnat2aggravvant1aggrravant1
Edit distance from "aggravant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aggravant"?
"aggravant" is spelled A-G-G-R-A-V-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\.
What does "aggravant" mean?
As an adjective, "aggravant" means: Qui rend plus grave.
What words are commonly confused with "aggravant"?
"aggravant" is commonly confused with "aggravent", "aggravante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aggravant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aggravant" is \a.ɡʁa.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aggravant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aggravant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list