complainte
\kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\
The verdict
“complainte” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,946
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de chansons populaires au ton plaintif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complainte · complainte · French
complainte · rank #34,946 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,946
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commanderie
Nearest frequency peer: commanderie (-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 « complainte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- colorer
colorer
65,058 corpus weight
- combativité
combativité
65,057 corpus weight
- commanderie
commanderie
65,056 corpus weight
- complainte
complainte
65,055 corpus weight
- computing
computing
65,054 corpus weight
- connecteur
connecteur
65,052 corpus weight
What this shows « complainte » 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 | complainte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complainte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around complainte (IPA \kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,946 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for complainte, with forms such as "ccomplainte", "cmoplainte", and "comlpainte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "complaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 complainte, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Type de chansons populaires au ton plaintif.
- 2Plainte en justice.
- 3Plainte en justice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how complainte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des chanteurs de complaintes allaient et venaient comme dans une foire.
Embarka ne le questionnait pas sur les causes de sa tristesse, mais, assise à ses pieds, elle lui chantait ses complaintes favorites ou lui souriait...
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomplainte
- cmoplainte
- comlpainte
- commplainte
- compalinte
- complainet
- complainnte
- complaintte
- complaitne
- complanite
- compliante
- compllainte
- compplainte
- copmlainte
- ocmplainte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of complainte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).