bouleversant
\bul.vɛʁ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“bouleversant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,346
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est de nature à bouleverser, qui cause beaucoup d’émotion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouleversant · bouleversant · French
bouleversant · rank #27,346 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,346
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH boon
Nearest frequency peer: boon (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bouleversant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bonds
bonds
72,658 corpus weight
- boomerang
boomerang
72,657 corpus weight
- boon
boon
72,656 corpus weight
- bouleversant
bouleversant
72,655 corpus weight
- boulons
boulons
72,654 corpus weight
- braqueur
braqueur
72,653 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bouleversant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bouleversant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bul.vɛʁ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #27,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouleversant” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around bouleversant (IPA \bul.vɛʁ.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,346 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est de nature à bouleverser, qui cause beaucoup d’émotion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouleversant, with forms such as "bbouleversant", "bolueversant", and "bouelversant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bouleversante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouleversant, spelled B-O-U-L-E-V-E-R-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est de nature à bouleverser, qui cause beaucoup d’émotion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouleversant
- bolueversant
- bouelversant
- bouleevrsant
- bouleverasnt
- bouleverrsant
- bouleversannt
- bouleversantt
- bouleversatn
- bouleversnat
- bouleverssant
- boulevesrant
- boulevresant
- boulevversant
- boulleversant
- boulveersant
- buoleversant
- obuleversant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouleversant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouleversant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.