allant

\a.lɑ̃\

/\a.lɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“allant” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,656
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à aller et venir ; qui montre de l’activité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-allant · allant · French

allant · rank #2,656 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,656
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH zéro

Nearest frequency peer: zéro (-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 « allant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « allant » 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).

allant vs avant
67% similar
allant vs ayant
67% similar
allant vs amant
67% similar

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

Key facts for allant
PropertyValue
Headwordallant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.lɑ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,656
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.allantse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « zéro » (#2,655), « apple » (#2,657), « W » (#2,654). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « allant » est au #2,656. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around allant (IPA \a.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,656 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for allant, with forms such as "alalnt", "alant", and "allannt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avant", "ayant", "amant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 allant, spelled A-L-L-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui aime à aller et venir ; qui montre de l’activité.
  2. 2
    Motivé.
  3. 3
    En parlant d'un cheval dans une course, impétueux, brillant, qui tire, qui va plus vite que ne le voudrait son cavalier.
  4. 4
    Andante.
  5. 5
    (Dans l’expression « plus allant ») Rapide, vif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je ne t'ai pas trouvée bien allante, ma chérie. Ce qui te soucie n'est pas trop grave, j'espère !
  2. Je crois bien que, sous ses airs allants et vigoureux, il était faible et influençable.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alalnt
  • alant
  • allannt
  • allantt
  • allatn
  • allnat
  • lalant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

alalnt2alant1allannt1allantt1allatn2allnat2lalant2
Edit distance from "allant"

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 "allant"?
"allant" is spelled A-L-L-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.lɑ̃\.
What does "allant" mean?
As an adjective, "allant" means: Qui aime à aller et venir ; qui montre de l’activité.
What words are commonly confused with "allant"?
"allant" is commonly confused with "avant", "ayant", "amant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "allant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "allant" is \a.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "allant" come from?
"allant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

civil7 variantsclés7 variantslourd7 variantsmener7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list