artisan
\aʁ.ti.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“artisan” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,633
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui relève d’un métier mécanique ou manuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artisan · artisan · French
artisan · rank #10,633 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,633
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH armure
Nearest frequency peer: armure (-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 « artisan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- annulée
annulée
89,371 corpus weight
- archéologiq…
archéologique
89,370 corpus weight
- armure
armure
89,369 corpus weight
- artisan
artisan
89,368 corpus weight
- attentiveme…
attentivement
89,367 corpus weight
- augmentant
augmentant
89,366 corpus weight
What this shows « artisan » 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 | artisan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « artisan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around artisan (IPA \aʁ.ti.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,633 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui relève d’un métier mécanique ou manuel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for artisan, with forms such as "aritsan", "arrtisan", and "artiasn". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "artist", "artiste", "artists", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is artisan, spelled A-R-T-I-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1Qui relève d’un métier mécanique ou manuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how artisan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, et dans l’Enclos même, était le berceau des Barbazanges, famille artisane enrichie au dernier siècle, haussée jusqu’à la bourgeoisie, et qui, depuis cent ans, donnait des consuls au municipe et des magistrats au présidial.
Souvent, il s’interrompt et sa main artisane, Balançant le verset qu’il scande et qu’il redit, Fait briller en glissant sur sa barbe persane La pierre où dort le feu des jardins interdits.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aritsan
- arrtisan
- artiasn
- artisann
- artisna
- artissan
- artsian
- arttisan
- atrisan
- ratisan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of artisan - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).