chantant
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,131
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
chantant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a des intonations mélodieuses, musicales. Often confused with contant and charmant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chantant is 8 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #13,131 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chantant, with forms such as "cahntant", "cchantant", and "chanatnt". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "contant", "charmant", "chantent", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chantant, spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a des intonations mélodieuses, musicales.
- 2Qui se chante facilement.
- 3Qui est propre à être mis en chant.
- 4Qui manque de naturel, car les intonations se rapprochent du chant, en parlant d’une déclamation au théâtre.
- 5Où l’on chante, qui comporte des chansons, en parlant d’une manifestation.
- 6Se dit du coq qui est représenté le bec ouvert, la tête légèrement relevée comme s'il chantait.
- 7Qui caractérise l'accent du Midi de la France, notamment occitan, catalan et corse, pour un habitant de la moitié nord.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahntant,cchantant,chanatnt,channtant,chantannt,chantantt,chantatn,chantnat,chanttant,chatnant,chhantant,chnatant,hcantant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chantant
Misspelling Variants of "chantant"
Frequency rank: #13,131 in French
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