appartenant
\a.paʁ.tə.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“appartenant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient de droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appartenant · appartenant · French
appartenant · rank #3,980 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,980
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appellent
Nearest frequency peer: appellent (+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 « appartenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amateur
amateur
96,024 corpus weight
- appartenant
appartenant
96,021 corpus weight
- appellent
appellent
96,020 corpus weight
- argument
argument
96,018 corpus weight
- automatique
automatique
96,017 corpus weight
- cardinal
cardinal
96,016 corpus weight
What this shows « appartenant » 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 | appartenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.paʁ.tə.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appartenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around appartenant (IPA \a.paʁ.tə.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,980 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui appartient de droit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for appartenant, with forms such as "apaprtenant", "apartenant", and "apparetnant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "apprenant", "appartement", "appartenait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 appartenant, spelled A-P-P-A-R-T-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient de droit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appartenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce phénomène s'est opéré dans une terre appartenante au Cᵉⁿ Pierre Faux, cultivateur et habitant de La Neuville-les-Wasigny, qui avait empouillé sa terre, en l'an huit, tant en luzerne, qu'orge, afin que cette dernière pût conserver sa luzerne, et pour que la terre se trouvât entièrement en rapport.
Une maison à lui appartenante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apaprtenant
- apartenant
- apparetnant
- apparrtenant
- apparteannt
- appartenannt
- appartenantt
- appartenatn
- appartennant
- appartennat
- appartneant
- apparttenant
- appatrenant
- appratenant
- papartenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appartenant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).