chassant
\ʃa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“chassant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,462
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une méthode de progression dans les mines de charbon où la taille s’éloigne perpendiculairement de la galerie principale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chassant · chassant · French
chassant · rank #34,462 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chantez
Nearest frequency peer: chantez (-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 « chassant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Castillo
Castillo
65,543 corpus weight
- celtiques
celtiques
65,541 corpus weight
- chantez
chantez
65,540 corpus weight
- chassant
chassant
65,539 corpus weight
- chihuahua
chihuahua
65,538 corpus weight
- Châtel
Châtel
65,536 corpus weight
What this shows « chassant » 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 | chassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chassant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chassant (IPA \ʃa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,462 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie une méthode de progression dans les mines de charbon où la taille s’éloigne perpendiculairement de la galerie principale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chassant, with forms such as "cahssant", "cchassant", and "chasant". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "chassent", "classent", "classant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chassant, spelled C-H-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une méthode de progression dans les mines de charbon où la taille s’éloigne perpendiculairement de la galerie principale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La taille montante attaque le gisement par la base, par l’extrémité la plus profonde. Elle progresse en remontant la veine jusqu’à son sommet. Tandis qu’elle est creusée dans la largeur du bloc de houille, la taille chassante, au contraire, traverse celui-ci dans toute sa longueur.
Le foudroyage est appliqué indifféremment aux fronts chassants ou montants, dans des pendages compris entre 0° et 200, des ouvertures allant de 70 cm à 2 mètres et dans les veines grisouteuses ou non.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahssant
- cchassant
- chasant
- chasasnt
- chassannt
- chassantt
- chassatn
- chassnat
- chhassant
- chsasant
- hcassant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chassant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).