calculant
\kal.ky.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“calculant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,959
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui calcule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calculant · calculant · French
calculant · rank #48,959 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,959
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cakes
Nearest frequency peer: cakes (-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 « calculant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- béatitude
béatitude
51,045 corpus weight
- bénignes
bénignes
51,044 corpus weight
- cakes
cakes
51,043 corpus weight
- calculant
calculant
51,042 corpus weight
- calendes
calendes
51,041 corpus weight
- callas
callas
51,040 corpus weight
What this shows « calculant » 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 | calculant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kal.ky.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calculant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around calculant (IPA \kal.ky.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,959 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui calcule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for calculant, with forms such as "aclculant", "caclulant", and "calcculant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "circulant", "calculent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is calculant, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui calcule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calculant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vous aime et vous conjure d’être toujours habile, comptante, calculante et supputante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclculant
- caclulant
- calcculant
- calcluant
- calcualnt
- calculannt
- calculantt
- calculatn
- calcullant
- calculnat
- callculant
- caluclant
- ccalculant
- claculant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calculant - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).