codant
The verdict
“codant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,438 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,438
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui code.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | codant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “codant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
codant is uncommon French at frequency #76,438 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui code.".
No misspelling variants are generated for codant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is codant, spelled C-O-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui code.
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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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Using “codant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-D-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.