balançant
\ba.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“balançant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,666
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe balancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balancant · balançant · French
balançant · rank #38,666 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,666
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baille
Nearest frequency peer: baille (-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 « balançant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bachelot
Bachelot
61,338 corpus weight
- badauds
badauds
61,337 corpus weight
- baille
baille
61,336 corpus weight
- balançant
balançant
61,335 corpus weight
- banalités
banalités
61,334 corpus weight
- baroques
baroques
61,333 corpus weight
What this shows « balançant » 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 | balançant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balançant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around balançant (IPA \ba.lɑ̃.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,666 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe balancer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for balançant, with forms such as "ablançant", "baalnçant", and "balanaçnt". 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, "balayant", "balancent", "balançait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is balançant, spelled B-A-L-A-N-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe balancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balançant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il pêchait parfois dans le canal situé au-dessus du moulin, alimenté par la rivière, dans les grands calmes où les rotengles, les poissons-chats et les carpes venaient se nourrir de grains concassés en balançant leurs flancs dans la lumière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablançant
- baalnçant
- balanaçnt
- balancant
- balannçant
- balançannt
- balançantt
- balançatn
- balançnat
- balaçnant
- ballançant
- balnaçant
- bbalançant
- blaançant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balançant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).