agissant
\a.ʒi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“agissant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,024
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui agit, qui se donne beaucoup de mouvement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agissant · agissant · French
agissant · rank #7,024 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH admet
Nearest frequency peer: admet (-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 « agissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- évacuation
évacuation
92,980 corpus weight
- 5e
5e
92,979 corpus weight
- admet
admet
92,978 corpus weight
- agissant
agissant
92,977 corpus weight
- Amiens
Amiens
92,976 corpus weight
- annulation
annulation
92,975 corpus weight
What this shows « agissant » 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 | agissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʒi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around agissant (IPA \a.ʒi.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,024 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agissant, with forms such as "aggissant", "agisant", and "agisasnt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "agitant", "agissent", "agissons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is agissant, spelled A-G-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui agit, qui se donne beaucoup de mouvement.
- 2Qui agit, qui opère avec force, avec efficacité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vrai fait nouveau, aujourd’hui, n’est peut-être pas que les peuples éprouvent les passions politiques, mais qu’ils prétendent les éprouver. Cette prétention suffit, d’ailleurs, à les rendre agissants et à fournir un merveilleux terrain d’exploitation à leurs meneurs.
Je continuai mes lectures, je devins l’écolier le moins agissant, le plus paresseux, le plus contemplatif de la Division des Petits, et partant le plus souvent puni.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aggissant
- agisant
- agisasnt
- agissannt
- agissantt
- agissatn
- agissnat
- agsisant
- aigssant
- gaissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agissant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).