conciliant

\kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“conciliant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,895
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est porté à concilier les esprits, les gens d’intérêts opposés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-conciliant · conciliant · French

conciliant · rank #31,895 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #31,895
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH composa

Nearest frequency peer: composa (-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 « conciliant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « conciliant » 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).

conciliant vs concluant
80% similar

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

Key facts for conciliant
PropertyValue
Headwordconciliant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#31,895
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conciliant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.conciliantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « composa » (#31,894), « concis » (#31,896), « constipation » (#31,897). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « conciliant » est au #31,895. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around conciliant (IPA \kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,895 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 conciliant, with forms such as "cconciliant", "cnociliant", and "cocniliant". 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, "concluant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 conciliant, spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est porté à concilier les esprits, les gens d’intérêts opposés.
  2. 2
    Qui accepte de ne pas tenter d’imposer ses propres opinions afin d’éviter les disputes.
  3. 3
    Se dit d’une attitude, d’une façon de faire, dont l’objectif est de ne pas exacerber les antagonismes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L'auteur de l'explication, Florentin de Thierrat, était né à Mirecourt vers la fin du XVIᵉ siècle ; ce fut un jurisconsulte de grand mérite, tout à la fois habile, conciliant ; on l'appelait l'arbitre de la province.
  2. L’Association des joueurs demeure inflexible en ce qui a trait au versement complet des salaires consentis aux joueurs. Ce refus de Donald Fehr est très mal perçu par la Ligue qui s'est montrée conciliante la semaine dernière en faisant des concessions totalisant plus de 200 millions.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconciliant
  • cnociliant
  • cocniliant
  • concciliant
  • conciilant
  • concilaint
  • conciliannt
  • conciliantt
  • conciliatn
  • concilinat
  • concilliant
  • concliiant
  • conicliant
  • connciliant
  • ocnciliant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cconciliant1cnociliant2cocniliant2concciliant1conciilant2concilaint2conciliannt1conciliantt1
Edit distance from "conciliant"

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 "conciliant"?
"conciliant" is spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\.
What does "conciliant" mean?
As an adjective, "conciliant" means: Qui est porté à concilier les esprits, les gens d’intérêts opposés.
What words are commonly confused with "conciliant"?
"conciliant" is commonly confused with "concluant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conciliant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conciliant" is \kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conciliant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conciliant", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list