communicants

\kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\

/\kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“communicants” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,177
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de communicant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-communicants · communicants · French

communicants · rank #33,177 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #33,177
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collées

Nearest frequency peer: collées (-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 « communicants »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « communicants » 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).

communicants vs communiquant
75% similar

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

Key facts for communicants
PropertyValue
Headwordcommunicants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#33,177
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « communicants »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).communicantsse 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 « collées » (#33,176), « commémoratif » (#33,178), « colas » (#33,175). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « communicants » est au #33,177. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around communicants (IPA \kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,177 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de communicant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for communicants, with forms such as "ccommunicants", "cmomunicants", and "commnuicants". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "communiquant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is communicants, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de communicant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. S’ils sont communicants et sensibles, pourquoi n’éprouveraient-ils pas des émotions ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommunicants
  • cmomunicants
  • commnuicants
  • commuincants
  • communciants
  • communiacnts
  • communicannts
  • communicanst
  • communicantss
  • communicantts
  • communicatns
  • communiccants
  • communicnats
  • communnicants
  • comumnicants
  • comunicants
  • ocmmunicants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of communicants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccommunicants1cmomunicants2commnuicants2commuincants2communciants2communiacnts2communicannts1communicanst2
Edit distance from "communicants"

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 "communicants"?
"communicants" is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\.
What does "communicants" mean?
As an adjective, "communicants" means: Masculin pluriel de communicant.
What words are commonly confused with "communicants"?
"communicants" is commonly confused with "communiquant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "communicants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "communicants" is \kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "communicants" come from?
"communicants" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list