ascendants
\a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“ascendants” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,285. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ascendant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascendants · ascendants · French
ascendants · rank #32,285 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,285
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asservissement
Nearest frequency peer: asservissement (+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 « ascendants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- armateurs
armateurs
67,719 corpus weight
- arrêterai
arrêterai
67,718 corpus weight
- ascendants
ascendants
67,716 corpus weight
- asservissem…
asservissement
67,715 corpus weight
- assied
assied
67,714 corpus weight
- assois
assois
67,713 corpus weight
What this shows « ascendants » 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 | ascendants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ascendants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around ascendants (IPA \a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,285 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ascendant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for ascendants, with forms such as "acsendants", "asccendants", and "ascednants". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ascendant", "ascendance", "ascendante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ascendants, spelled A-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ascendant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsendants
- asccendants
- ascednants
- ascenadnts
- ascendannts
- ascendanst
- ascendantss
- ascendantts
- ascendatns
- ascenddants
- ascendnats
- ascenndants
- ascnedants
- asecndants
- asscendants
- sacendants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ascendants - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).