attirant
\a.ti.ʁɑ̃\
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
- arrêtons
arrêtons
86,677 corpus weight
- assassiner
assassiner
86,676 corpus weight
- astronomie
astronomie
86,675 corpus weight
- attirant
attirant
86,673 corpus weight
- barbare
barbare
86,672 corpus weight
- barreaux
barreaux
86,670 corpus weight
What this shows « attirant » 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 | attirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ti.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attirant »
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
- 1Qui attire. Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).