calmant
\kal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“calmant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,767
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui calme, au sens physique ou au sens moral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calmant · calmant · French
calmant · rank #47,767 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,767
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculette
Nearest frequency peer: calculette (-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 « calmant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- béatificati…
béatification
52,237 corpus weight
- caballero
caballero
52,236 corpus weight
- calculette
calculette
52,235 corpus weight
- calmant
calmant
52,234 corpus weight
- Calogero
Calogero
52,233 corpus weight
- calviniste
calviniste
52,232 corpus weight
What this shows « calmant » 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 | calmant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calmant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around calmant (IPA \kal.mɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui calme, au sens physique ou au sens moral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calmant, with forms such as "aclmant", "calamnt", and "callmant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "causant", "collant", "cassant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calmant, spelled C-A-L-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui calme, au sens physique ou au sens moral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calmant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chose bizarre, par un retour subit à des impressions si lointaines, je fus rappelé tout à coup vers les aspects les plus austères et les plus calmants de ma vie champêtre.
Souvent, au milieu de la journée, elle tombait dans de longs sommeils paisibles, calmants, réparateurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclmant
- calamnt
- callmant
- calmannt
- calmantt
- calmatn
- calmmant
- calmnat
- camlant
- ccalmant
- clamant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calmant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).