balayant
\ba.le.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“balayant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,935
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balayant · balayant · French
balayant · rank #48,935 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,935
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banals
Nearest frequency peer: banals (+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 « balayant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balayant
balayant
51,066 corpus weight
- banals
banals
51,065 corpus weight
- banyuls
banyuls
51,064 corpus weight
- become
become
51,063 corpus weight
- benedetto
benedetto
51,062 corpus weight
- ber
ber
51,061 corpus weight
What this shows « balayant » 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 | balayant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.le.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balayant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around balayant (IPA \ba.le.jɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,935 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe balayer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for balayant, with forms such as "ablayant", "baalyant", and "balaaynt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "balayage", "baladent", "balançant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balayant, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe balayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balayant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois jours durant, trois nuits d’horreur, la mer franchit les digues, effondra la falaise, balayant tout dans son irrésistible furie, éventrant les champs saccagés, renversant les chaumières et laissant sur le rivage, lorsqu’elle s’apaisa, un monstre comme seul en peut produire l’Enfer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablayant
- baalyant
- balaaynt
- balayannt
- balayantt
- balayatn
- balaynat
- balayyant
- ballayant
- balyaant
- bbalayant
- blaayant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balayant - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).