complaisant

\kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“complaisant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,866
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la complaisance pour les autres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-complaisant · complaisant · French

complaisant · rank #35,866 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #35,866
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commissariats

Nearest frequency peer: commissariats (-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 « complaisant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « complaisant » 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).

complaisant vs complaisance
83% similar

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

Key facts for complaisant
PropertyValue
Headwordcomplaisant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#35,866
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complaisant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).complaisantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « commissariats » (#35,865), « conciergerie » (#35,867), « collages » (#35,864). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « complaisant » est au #35,866. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around complaisant (IPA \kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,866 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for complaisant, with forms such as "ccomplaisant", "cmoplaisant", and "comlpaisant". 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, "complaisance", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 complaisant, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a de la complaisance pour les autres.
  2. 2
    Qui a ou qui dénote de la complaisance pour soi-même.
  3. 3
    Qui favorise les galanteries d’un autre.
  4. 4
    Qui favorise la classe dirigeante.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les indigènes se montraient très sympathiques, aimables et complaisants ; leurs figures du type mongol caractérisé, souriaient, intelligentes et franches.
  2. Un homme complaisant. - Être complaisant pour tout le monde. - Il s’est montré fort complaisant envers nous.

This word in other languages

obliging(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomplaisant
  • cmoplaisant
  • comlpaisant
  • commplaisant
  • compalisant
  • complaiasnt
  • complaisannt
  • complaisantt
  • complaisatn
  • complaisnat
  • complaissant
  • complasiant
  • compliasant
  • compllaisant
  • compplaisant
  • copmlaisant
  • ocmplaisant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccomplaisant1cmoplaisant2comlpaisant2commplaisant1compalisant2complaiasnt2complaisannt1complaisantt1
Edit distance from "complaisant"

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 "complaisant"?
"complaisant" is spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\.
What does "complaisant" mean?
As an adjective, "complaisant" means: Qui a de la complaisance pour les autres.
What words are commonly confused with "complaisant"?
"complaisant" is commonly confused with "complaisance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "complaisant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "complaisant" is \kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "complaisant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

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

conciergerie17 variantsfinalisation17 variantstranslucide17 variantsinhabituelles17 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list