ambulant
\ɑ̃.by.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“ambulant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,314
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambulant · ambulant · French
ambulant · rank #27,314 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,314
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amasser
Nearest frequency peer: amasser (-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 « ambulant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affichait
affichait
72,690 corpus weight
- amasser
amasser
72,688 corpus weight
- ambulant
ambulant
72,687 corpus weight
- amin
amin
72,686 corpus weight
- aménagées
aménagées
72,685 corpus weight
- ani
ani
72,684 corpus weight
What this shows « ambulant » 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 | ambulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.by.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambulant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ambulant (IPA \ɑ̃.by.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,314 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambulant, with forms such as "abmulant", "ambbulant", and "ambluant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "amusant", "annulant", "ambulants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ambulant, spelled A-M-B-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
- 2Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
- 3Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
- 4Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
- 5Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
- 6Qui va d’un lieu à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ambulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rémy avait, au Petit-Villemongin, une marraine, la mère Barbou, qui n'avait pas volé son nom. Elle était épicière ambulante et passait dans les villages avec sa voiture à grande bâche, où pendillait je ne sais tout quoi.
Le capotier de Lyon, vendeur ambulant, a fait quelques calculs à partir du nombre de préservatifs qu’il écoule chaque année auprès des prostituées. Il avance le chiffre invérifiable d’un million de passes par an sur la région lyonnaise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmulant
- ambbulant
- ambluant
- ambualnt
- ambulannt
- ambulantt
- ambulatn
- ambullant
- ambulnat
- ammbulant
- amublant
- mabulant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambulant - 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).