collant
\kɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“collant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,654. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,654
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui colle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collant · collant · French
collant · rank #17,654 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,654
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collabore
Nearest frequency peer: collabore (-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 « collant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- circulaires
circulaires
82,350 corpus weight
- clopes
clopes
82,349 corpus weight
- collabore
collabore
82,348 corpus weight
- collant
collant
82,347 corpus weight
- collet
collet
82,346 corpus weight
- coloc
coloc
82,345 corpus weight
What this shows « collant » 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 | collant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around collant (IPA \kɔ.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for collant, with forms such as "ccollant", "clolant", and "colalnt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "collet", "Collin", "courant", and more, 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 collant, spelled C-O-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui colle.
- 2Qui est trop juste ou qui moule les formes, en parlant d’un vêtement.
- 3Dont on ne peut se débarrasser en parlant d’une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Papier collant.
Des rubans collants, alourdis de mouches, pendaient du plafond comme des saucisses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollant
- clolant
- colalnt
- colant
- collannt
- collantt
- collatn
- collnat
- ocllant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).