causant
\ko.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“causant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,827
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a tendance à parler, a envie de le faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causant · causant · French
causant · rank #15,827 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,827
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carreau
Nearest frequency peer: carreau (-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 « causant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canyon
canyon
84,177 corpus weight
- capot
capot
84,176 corpus weight
- carreau
carreau
84,175 corpus weight
- causant
causant
84,174 corpus weight
- cavité
cavité
84,173 corpus weight
- centrée
centrée
84,172 corpus weight
What this shows « causant » 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 | causant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « causant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around causant (IPA \ko.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,827 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a tendance à parler, a envie de le faire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for causant, with forms such as "casuant", "cauasnt", and "causannt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "courant", "coupant", "causent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is causant, spelled C-A-U-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a tendance à parler, a envie de le faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est elle qui faisait les courses. Pas causante, et même un brin fiérote.
Il y avait bien du monde à cet enterrement, dit Honoré, mais je n’ai pas vu grand-chose, pour dire que j’aie vu. Et les gens n’étaient guère causants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- casuant
- cauasnt
- causannt
- causantt
- causatn
- causnat
- caussant
- ccausant
- cuasant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of causant - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).