colorant
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“colorant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui colore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colorant · colorant · French
colorant · rank #25,597 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colles
Nearest frequency peer: colles (-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 « colorant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cloisons
cloisons
74,407 corpus weight
- colles
colles
74,405 corpus weight
- colorant
colorant
74,404 corpus weight
- compost
compost
74,403 corpus weight
- congénères
congénères
74,402 corpus weight
- consent
consent
74,401 corpus weight
What this shows « colorant » 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 | colorant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colorant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around colorant (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui colore.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for colorant, with forms such as "ccolorant", "cloorant", and "collorant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "courant", "couvrant", "colorants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is colorant, spelled C-O-L-O-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui colore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colorant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après MM. Pelletier et Caventou, le carmin est un composé de la matière colorante de la cochenille, d’une matière animale qui y est également renfermée […]
Ainsi le brun se retrouve avec tous ses éléments colorants, du rouge le plus vif au noir de velours, dans les taupins, les altises, les pyrochres, les coccinelles, et dans les papillons, les sphinx, les bombyx, les noctuelles, les sésies ; le gris végétal dans les couleurs jaunes, vertes, bleues, métalliques et brillantes des capricornes, des pucerons, de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolorant
- cloorant
- collorant
- coloarnt
- colorannt
- colorantt
- coloratn
- colornat
- colorrant
- colroant
- coolrant
- oclorant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colorant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).