captivant
\kap.ti.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“captivant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,850
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui captive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captivant · captivant · French
captivant · rank #35,850 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,850
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cannon
Nearest frequency peer: cannon (-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 « captivant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- candeur
candeur
64,154 corpus weight
- cannibalisme
cannibalisme
64,153 corpus weight
- cannon
cannon
64,152 corpus weight
- captivant
captivant
64,151 corpus weight
- carafe
carafe
64,150 corpus weight
- Carlson
Carlson
64,149 corpus weight
What this shows « captivant » 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 | captivant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kap.ti.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captivant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around captivant (IPA \kap.ti.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui captive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for captivant, with forms such as "acptivant", "capitvant", and "capptivant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cultivant", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is captivant, spelled C-A-P-T-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui captive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how captivant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même dans la condition actuelle de nos mœurs, et en dépit du mouvement d’opinion qui pousse la femme à se désencloîtrer, elle est la matière délicate, captivante et décevante, à laquelle s’attachent les psychologues.
Finalement, l’exposition parvient à être captivante, alors qu’on nous parle d’IRM, de carcinome ou de lymphocytes T.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptivant
- capitvant
- capptivant
- captiavnt
- captivannt
- captivantt
- captivatn
- captivnat
- captivvant
- capttivant
- captviant
- catpivant
- ccaptivant
- cpativant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captivant - 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.
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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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).