consentir
\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tiʁ\
The verdict
“consentir” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,893
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Admettre comme vrai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consentir · consentir · French
consentir · rank #21,893 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,893
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conforter
Nearest frequency peer: conforter (-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 « consentir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- complémenta…
complémentarité
78,111 corpus weight
- compromise
compromise
78,110 corpus weight
- conforter
conforter
78,109 corpus weight
- consentir
consentir
78,108 corpus weight
- contagion
contagion
78,107 corpus weight
- corbeaux
corbeaux
78,106 corpus weight
What this shows « consentir » 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 | consentir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consentir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around consentir (IPA \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for consentir, with forms such as "cconsentir", "cnosentir", and "conesntir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "contenir", "convenir", "contenter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 consentir, spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Admettre comme vrai.
- 2Accepter la réalisation d'une chose ; concéder, accorder.
- 3Accepter le mariage d'un enfant ou d'une pupille.
- 4(Marine) S'applique à un mât qui se déforme notamment à cause de la violence du vent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consentir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vérité consentie par tous.
[…] : très bornée dans ses dépenses, elle ne pouvait se procurer les plaisirs dont elle était avide, ni consentir à s’en priver.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsentir
- cnosentir
- conesntir
- connsentir
- consenitr
- consenntir
- consentirr
- consentri
- consenttir
- consetnir
- consnetir
- conssentir
- cosnentir
- ocnsentir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consentir - 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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).