arrachant
\a.ʁa.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“arrachant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe arracher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrachant · arrachant · French
arrachant · rank #37,177 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,177
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arpenter
Nearest frequency peer: arpenter (-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 « arrachant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- AQMI
AQMI
62,827 corpus weight
- arms
arms
62,826 corpus weight
- arpenter
arpenter
62,825 corpus weight
- arrachant
arrachant
62,824 corpus weight
- articulés
articulés
62,822 corpus weight
- assista
assista
62,821 corpus weight
What this shows « arrachant » 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 | arrachant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrachant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around arrachant (IPA \a.ʁa.ʃɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,177 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe arracher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrachant, with forms such as "arachant", "ararchant", and "arracahnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "attachant", "arrachent", "arrachage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 arrachant, spelled A-R-R-A-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe arracher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrachant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A ces mots, il le foule aux pieds, et en arrachant son fer, lui arrache la vie.
Ah ! le boulanger (le diable) m’abandonne ! s’écria Jacques Collin en s’arrachant des bras de ses deux camarades et se dressant d’un air formidable !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arachant
- ararchant
- arracahnt
- arracchant
- arrachannt
- arrachantt
- arrachatn
- arrachhant
- arrachnat
- arrahcant
- arrcahant
- rarachant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrachant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).