caractérisant
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“caractérisant” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,201
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui caractérise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracterisant · caractérisant · French
caractérisant · rank #39,201 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,201
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canevas
Nearest frequency peer: canevas (-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 « caractérisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caleçons
caleçons
60,803 corpus weight
- camionneur
camionneur
60,802 corpus weight
- canevas
canevas
60,801 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisant
60,800 corpus weight
- cardinals
cardinals
60,799 corpus weight
- censeur
censeur
60,798 corpus weight
What this shows « caractérisant » 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 | caractérisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #39,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caractérisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around caractérisant (IPA \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,201 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui caractérise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for caractérisant, with forms such as "acractérisant", "caarctérisant", and "caracctérisant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "caractérisent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caractérisant, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui caractérise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caractérisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acractérisant
- caarctérisant
- caracctérisant
- caracterisant
- caractréisant
- caracttérisant
- caractéirsant
- caractériasnt
- caractérisannt
- caractérisantt
- caractérisatn
- caractérisnat
- caractérissant
- caractérrisant
- caractérsiant
- caracétrisant
- caratcérisant
- carcatérisant
- carractérisant
- ccaractérisant
- craactérisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caractérisant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caractérisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).