calment

\kalm\

/\kalm\/ verb

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The verdict

“calment” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,170
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe calmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-calment · calment · French

calment · rank #41,170 · 11 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,170
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cailles

Nearest frequency peer: cailles (-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 « calment »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « calment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

calment vs client
71% similar
calment vs calmer
71% similar
calment vs ciment
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for calment
PropertyValue
Headwordcalment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kalm\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,170
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calment »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).calmentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cailles » (#41,169), « caricaturale » (#41,171), « carlin » (#41,172). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « calment » est au #41,170. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around calment (IPA \kalm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calment, with forms such as "aclment", "calemnt", and "callment". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "client", "calmer", "ciment", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calment, spelled C-A-L-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe calmer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe calmer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aclment
  • calemnt
  • callment
  • calmennt
  • calmentt
  • calmetn
  • calmment
  • calmnet
  • camlent
  • ccalment
  • clament

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calment - 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.

aclment2calemnt2callment1calmennt1calmentt1calmetn2calmment1calmnet2
Edit distance from "calment"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calment"?
"calment" is spelled C-A-L-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kalm\.
What does "calment" mean?
As a verb, "calment" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe calmer.
What words are commonly confused with "calment"?
"calment" is commonly confused with "client", "calmer", "ciment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "calment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calment" is \kalm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calment" come from?
"calment" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "calment", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cailles#41,169celtics#41,175bronzés#41,162chiasse#41,180

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

bridges11 variantscombattue11 variantsBonneville11 variantsconvoite11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list