commençant
\kɔ.mɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“commençant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,976
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui commence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commencant · commençant · French
commençant · rank #8,976 · 14 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,976
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combiné
Nearest frequency peer: combiné (-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 « commençant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- citoyenneté
citoyenneté
91,028 corpus weight
- clown
clown
91,027 corpus weight
- combiné
combiné
91,026 corpus weight
- commençant
commençant
91,025 corpus weight
- connaissons
connaissons
91,024 corpus weight
- construits
construits
91,023 corpus weight
What this shows « commençant » 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 | commençant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commençant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around commençant (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,976 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui commence.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commençant, with forms such as "ccommençant", "cmomençant", and "comemnçant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "commencent", "commerçant", "commençons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is commençant, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui commence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commençant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces maladies sont : nᵒ 1 les végétations commençantes, quand elles affectent une forme arrondie ; nᵒ 2 l’hypertrophie des glandes sébacées ; nᵒ 3 les chancres primitifs non indurés ; nᵒ 4 les tubercules plats.
Ah ! ces sciences commençantes, ces sciences où l’hypothèse balbutie et où l’imagination reste maîtresse, elles sont le domaine des poètes autant que des savants !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommençant
- cmomençant
- comemnçant
- començant
- commenaçnt
- commencant
- commennçant
- commençannt
- commençantt
- commençatn
- commençnat
- commeçnant
- commneçant
- ocmmençant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commençant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commençant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).