clairvoyant
\klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“clairvoyant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,069
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui voit clair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clairvoyant · clairvoyant · French
clairvoyant · rank #46,069 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,069
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citizens
Nearest frequency peer: citizens (-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 « clairvoyant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cigognes
cigognes
53,935 corpus weight
- circonspect
circonspect
53,934 corpus weight
- citizens
citizens
53,933 corpus weight
- clairvoyant
clairvoyant
53,932 corpus weight
- codifié
codifié
53,931 corpus weight
- colonialiste
colonialiste
53,930 corpus weight
What this shows « clairvoyant » 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 | clairvoyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #46,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clairvoyant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around clairvoyant (IPA \klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,069 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for clairvoyant, with forms such as "calirvoyant", "cclairvoyant", and "clairovyant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "clairvoyance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is clairvoyant, spelled C-L-A-I-R-V-O-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui voit clair.
- 2Qui est intelligent, éclairé et pénétrant dans les affaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clairvoyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je suis aveugle, ma tendresse est clairvoyante, et je vous engage à surveiller ma fille.
Dans une belle préface, à la fois sensible et clairvoyante, M. Louis Gillet nos raconte la vie de Katherine Mansfield.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calirvoyant
- cclairvoyant
- clairovyant
- clairrvoyant
- clairvoaynt
- clairvoyannt
- clairvoyantt
- clairvoyatn
- clairvoynat
- clairvoyyant
- clairvvoyant
- clairvyoant
- claivroyant
- clarivoyant
- cliarvoyant
- cllairvoyant
- lcairvoyant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clairvoyant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).