atteignant
\a.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“atteignant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,908
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de atteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atteignant · atteignant · French
atteignant · rank #12,908 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,908
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrivais
Nearest frequency peer: arrivais (-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 « atteignant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- araignées
araignées
87,096 corpus weight
- arrestations
arrestations
87,095 corpus weight
- arrivais
arrivais
87,094 corpus weight
- atteignant
atteignant
87,093 corpus weight
- autorisant
autorisant
87,092 corpus weight
- band
band
87,090 corpus weight
What this shows « atteignant » 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 | atteignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « atteignant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around atteignant (IPA \a.tɛ.ɲɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,908 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de atteindre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for atteignant, with forms such as "ateignant", "atetignant", and "atteginant". 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, "attenant", "atteignit", "atteignent", 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, 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 atteignant, spelled A-T-T-E-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de atteindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how atteignant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle « défeuilletonise » la fiction télévisuelle et instaure un temps de lecture propre à un objet littéraire, atteignant un statut d’unicité de l’œuvre, une œuvre populaire conforme aux attentes de ressassement et de rappel de l’œuvre audiovisuelle appréciée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ateignant
- atetignant
- atteginant
- atteigannt
- atteiggnant
- atteignannt
- atteignantt
- atteignatn
- atteignnant
- atteignnat
- atteingant
- attiegnant
- tateignant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of atteignant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "atteignant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).