bordant
\bɔʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“bordant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,403
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Côté inférieur d'une voile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordant · bordant · French
bordant · rank #35,403 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boogie
Nearest frequency peer: boogie (-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 « bordant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blindées
blindées
64,601 corpus weight
- blocks
blocks
64,600 corpus weight
- boogie
boogie
64,599 corpus weight
- bordant
bordant
64,598 corpus weight
- Bossuet
Bossuet
64,597 corpus weight
- bow
bow
64,596 corpus weight
What this shows « bordant » 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 | bordant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bordant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bordant (IPA \bɔʁ.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,403 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Côté inférieur d'une voile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bordant, with forms such as "bbordant", "bodrant", and "boradnt". 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, "Bryant", "borden", "bordent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bordant, spelled B-O-R-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Côté inférieur d'une voile.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbordant
- bodrant
- boradnt
- bordannt
- bordantt
- bordatn
- borddant
- bordnat
- borrdant
- brodant
- obrdant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bordant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bordant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).