choquant

adj

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“choquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,928
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui offense, qui déplaît par son immoralité ou son inconvenance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-choquant · choquant · French

choquant · rank #11,928 · 12 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,928
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chapeaux

Nearest frequency peer: chapeaux (-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 « choquant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « choquant » 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).

choquant vs chouans
75% similar
choquant vs cliquant
75% similar
choquant vs claquant
75% similar

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

Key facts for choquant
PropertyValue
Headwordchoquant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,928
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « choquant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.choquantse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chapeaux » (#11,927), « Chypre » (#11,929), « changeant » (#11,926). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « choquant » est au #11,928. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around choquant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,928 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui offense, qui déplaît par son immoralité ou son inconvenance.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for choquant, with forms such as "cchoquant", "chhoquant", and "choqaunt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "chouans", "cliquant", "claquant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is choquant, spelled C-H-O-Q-U-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui offense, qui déplaît par son immoralité ou son inconvenance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il était très ennuyé car, pour lui, cette histoire était choquante au possible, dénuée de toute dignité.

Synonyms

chokbarchokbar de bz

This word in other languages

shocking(English)impactante(Español)schockierend(Deutsch)chocante(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchoquant
  • chhoquant
  • choqaunt
  • choqquant
  • choquannt
  • choquantt
  • choquatn
  • choqunat
  • chouqant
  • chqouant
  • cohquant
  • hcoquant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of choquant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cchoquant1chhoquant1choqaunt2choqquant1choquannt1choquantt1choquatn2choqunat2
Edit distance from "choquant"

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 "choquant"?
"choquant" is spelled C-H-O-Q-U-A-N-T.
What does "choquant" mean?
As an adjective, "choquant" means: Qui offense, qui déplaît par son immoralité ou son inconvenance.
What words are commonly confused with "choquant"?
"choquant" is commonly confused with "chouans", "cliquant", "claquant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "choquant" come from?
"choquant" 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.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

chapeaux#11,927cercueil#11,925cailloux#11,922biscuits#11,917

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

comprenne12 variantsbasilique12 variantsapprendra12 variantsapportées12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list