ceint
\sɛ̃\
The verdict
“ceint” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,637
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de ceindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceint · ceint · French
ceint · rank #46,637 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,637
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cec
Nearest frequency peer: cec (-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 « ceint »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cassoulet
cassoulet
53,367 corpus weight
- catcheur
catcheur
53,366 corpus weight
- cec
cec
53,365 corpus weight
- ceint
ceint
53,364 corpus weight
- centrafrica…
centrafricain
53,363 corpus weight
- CFF
CFF
53,362 corpus weight
What this shows « ceint » 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 | ceint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ceint »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ceint (IPA \sɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,637 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ceint, with forms such as "cceint", "ceinnt", and "ceintt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cet", "CNT", "cen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ceint, spelled C-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de ceindre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de ceindre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cceint
- ceinnt
- ceintt
- ceitn
- cenit
- cient
- ecint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ceint - 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 "ceint", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).