ardents
\aʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“ardents” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,548
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ardent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ardents · ardents · French
ardents · rank #33,548 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,548
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Archambault
Nearest frequency peer: Archambault (-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 « ardents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aram
aram
66,455 corpus weight
- Archambault
Archambault
66,454 corpus weight
- ardents
ardents
66,453 corpus weight
- Argos
Argos
66,452 corpus weight
- argus
argus
66,451 corpus weight
- Arlon
Arlon
66,450 corpus weight
What this shows « ardents » 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 | ardents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ardents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ardents (IPA \aʁ.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,548 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ardent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ardents, with forms such as "adrents", "arddents", and "ardennts". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "argent", "arrêts", "arènes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ardents, spelled A-R-D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ardent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ardents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, naturellement, était sur des charbons ardents, vu la tournure que prenait l’affaire : car il s’agissait d’une véritable occasion ; et c’eût été péché de la voir filer comme ça, pour la tatillonnerie d’un colonel.
Nombreux, organisés, ardents propagandistes, les anarchistes saint-juniauds semblent d'évidence peser d'un poids conséquent sur la vie socio-politique, voire économique de la cité gantière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrents
- arddents
- ardennts
- ardenst
- ardentss
- ardentts
- ardetns
- ardnets
- arednts
- arrdents
- radents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ardents - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).