confondant
\kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“confondant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,518
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stupéfiant ; profondément troublant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confondant · confondant · French
confondant · rank #45,518 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,518
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confessionnel…
Nearest frequency peer: confessionnelles (-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 « confondant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- comédiennes
comédiennes
54,486 corpus weight
- concouru
concouru
54,485 corpus weight
- confessionn…
confessionnelles
54,484 corpus weight
- confondant
confondant
54,483 corpus weight
- consort
consort
54,482 corpus weight
- consécutive…
consécutivement
54,481 corpus weight
What this shows « confondant » 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 | confondant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confondant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around confondant (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,518 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stupéfiant ; profondément troublant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for confondant, with forms such as "cconfondant", "cnofondant", and "cofnondant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "confondent", "confrontant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confondant, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Stupéfiant ; profondément troublant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confondant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une ressemblance confondante, un cynisme confondant.
Quelle excentricité, cette femme est confondante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfondant
- cnofondant
- cofnondant
- conffondant
- confnodant
- confodnant
- confonadnt
- confondannt
- confondantt
- confondatn
- confonddant
- confondnat
- confonndant
- connfondant
- conofndant
- ocnfondant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confondant - 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
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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 (16 here; floor ≥5).