chantant

adj

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The verdict

“chantant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,131
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des intonations mélodieuses, musicales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chantant · chantant · French

chantant · rank #13,131 · 13 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,131
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carrée

Nearest frequency peer: carrée (-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 « chantant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chantant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chantant vs contant
75% similar
chantant vs charmant
75% similar
chantant vs chantent
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chantant
PropertyValue
Headwordchantant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#13,131
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chantant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chantantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « carrée » (#13,130), « cherchons » (#13,132), « cale » (#13,129). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chantant » est au #13,131. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around chantant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chantant, with forms such as "cahntant", "cchantant", and "chanatnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "contant", "charmant", "chantent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chantant, spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a des intonations mélodieuses, musicales.
  2. 2
    Qui se chante facilement.
  3. 3
    Qui est propre à être mis en chant.
  4. 4
    Qui manque de naturel, car les intonations se rapprochent du chant, en parlant d’une déclamation au théâtre.
  5. 5
    Où l’on chante, qui comporte des chansons, en parlant d’une manifestation.
  6. 6
    Se dit du coq qui est représenté le bec ouvert, la tête légèrement relevée comme s'il chantait.
  7. 7
    Qui caractérise l'accent du Midi de la France, notamment occitan, catalan et corse, pour un habitant de la moitié nord.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chantant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je trouve sa voix chantante plutôt agréable.
  2. À l’oral, l’espéranto fait penser à l’espagnol ou à l’italien, à cause de son ton mélodique chantant et de ses très nombreuses terminaisons en a et en o. À l’écrit, avec ses accents circonflexes, il fait un peu penser au tchèque ou au serbo-croate.

Antonyms

pointu

This word in other languages

chanting(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahntant
  • cchantant
  • chanatnt
  • channtant
  • chantannt
  • chantantt
  • chantatn
  • chantnat
  • chanttant
  • chatnant
  • chhantant
  • chnatant
  • hcantant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chantant - 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.

cahntant2cchantant1chanatnt2channtant1chantannt1chantantt1chantatn2chantnat2
Edit distance from "chantant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chantant"?
"chantant" is spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T.
What does "chantant" mean?
As an adjective, "chantant" means: Qui a des intonations mélodieuses, musicales.
What words are commonly confused with "chantant"?
"chantant" is commonly confused with "contant", "charmant", "chantent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "chantant" come from?
"chantant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chantant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Beaumont#13,114courtier#13,150arctique#13,104défendue#13,160

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

comprises13 variantssyndical13 variantsimpeccable13 variantssuccèdent13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list