apaisant
\a.pɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“apaisant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,897
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui apporte l’apaisement, qui rassure, qui calme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apaisant · apaisant · French
apaisant · rank #30,897 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,897
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Andersen
Nearest frequency peer: Andersen (-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 « apaisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amabilité
amabilité
69,108 corpus weight
- anatomique
anatomique
69,106 corpus weight
- Andersen
Andersen
69,105 corpus weight
- apaisant
apaisant
69,104 corpus weight
- apostasie
apostasie
69,103 corpus weight
- applaudis
applaudis
69,102 corpus weight
What this shows « apaisant » 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 | apaisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apaisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around apaisant (IPA \a.pɛ.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,897 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui apporte l’apaisement, qui rassure, qui calme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for apaisant, with forms such as "aapisant", "apaiasnt", and "apaisannt". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "apaisante", "abaissant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 apaisant, spelled A-P-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui apporte l’apaisement, qui rassure, qui calme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apaisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il siégeait, au fond, sur une banquette, et fumait un cigare. Une indéniable sérénité se reflétait sur ses traits. Peut-être était-ce l’apaisante influence du cigare.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aapisant
- apaiasnt
- apaisannt
- apaisantt
- apaisatn
- apaisnat
- apaissant
- apasiant
- apiasant
- appaisant
- paaisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apaisant - 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.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).