attirant

\a.ti.ʁɑ̃\

/\a.ti.ʁɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“attirant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,328
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui attire. Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attirant · attirant · French

attirant · rank #13,328 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,328
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH barbare

Nearest frequency peer: barbare (+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 « attirant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « attirant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

attirant vs attrait
75% similar
attirant vs attirent
88% similar
attirant vs attirante
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for attirant
PropertyValue
Headwordattirant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.ti.ʁɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#13,328
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attirant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.attirantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « barbare » (#13,329), « astronomie » (#13,326), « assassiner » (#13,325). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attirant » est au #13,328. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around attirant (IPA \a.ti.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,328 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui attire. Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attirant, with forms such as "atirant", "atitrant", and "attiarnt". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "attrait", "attirent", "attirante", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is attirant, spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui attire. Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how attirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Souvent, histoire de passer le temps, les paléopathologistes entrent dans les églises dans l’espoir d’y repérer une tombe atypique, une relique extravagante, une inscription funéraire plus ou moins attirante.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atirant
  • atitrant
  • attiarnt
  • attirannt
  • attirantt
  • attiratn
  • attirnat
  • attirrant
  • attriant
  • tatirant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attirant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

atirant1atitrant2attiarnt2attirannt1attirantt1attiratn2attirnat2attirrant1
Edit distance from "attirant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attirant"?
"attirant" is spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ti.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "attirant" mean?
As an adjective, "attirant" means: Qui attire. Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.
What words are commonly confused with "attirant"?
"attirant" is commonly confused with "attrait", "attirent", "attirante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attirant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attirant" is \a.ti.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attirant" come from?
"attirant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attirant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list