combattante

\kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\

/\kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“combattante” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,238
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldate marchant en campagne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-combattante · combattante · French

combattante · rank #37,238 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,238
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH colossales

Nearest frequency peer: colossales (-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 « combattante »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « combattante » 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).

combattante vs combattent
82% similar
combattante vs combattants
91% similar
combattante vs combattant
91% similar

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

Key facts for combattante
PropertyValue
Headwordcombattante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\
Letters11
Frequency rank#37,238
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « combattante »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.combattantese 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 « colossales » (#37,237), « comedy » (#37,239), « colonna » (#37,236). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « combattante » est au #37,238. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around combattante (IPA \kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,238 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for combattante, with forms such as "ccombattante", "cmobattante", and "cobmattante". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "combattent", "combattants", "combattant", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is combattante, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-T-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soldate marchant en campagne.
  2. 2
    Soldate qui, dans une armée, prend part aux combats, par opposition à celles qui n’y prennent pas part, tels que les employées de l’administration, les chirurgiennes, les blessées, les espionnes, les civiles non armées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Mais les combattantes de la culture occidentale sont rarement des femmes-enfants, mais plutôt des mâles dans des corps de femmes, tour à tour hyper-sexy ou bien musclées par le body-buiding.

This word in other languages

Kämpferin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccombattante
  • cmobattante
  • cobmattante
  • comabttante
  • combatante
  • combatatnte
  • combattanet
  • combattannte
  • combattantte
  • combattatne
  • combattnate
  • combbattante
  • combtatante
  • commbattante
  • ocmbattante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of combattante - 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.

ccombattante1cmobattante2cobmattante2comabttante2combatante1combatatnte2combattanet2combattannte1
Edit distance from "combattante"

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 "combattante"?
"combattante" is spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-T-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\.
What does "combattante" mean?
As a noun, "combattante" means: Soldate marchant en campagne.
What words are commonly confused with "combattante"?
"combattante" is commonly confused with "combattent", "combattants", "combattant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "combattante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "combattante" is \kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "combattante" come from?
"combattante" 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

clignotants#37,234braconniers#37,207dominatrice#37,278Dostoïevski#37,279

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

champenois15 variantscoïncident15 variantsdissociation15 variantsbalustrade15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list