constante
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,476
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
constante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Valeur qui ne change pas. On les note souvent par une lettre minuscule non italicisée (contrairement à une variable, qui est toujours notée en italiques). Pronounced \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃t\. It ranks #4,476 in French word frequency. Often confused with constat and contant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for constante is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,476 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for constante, with forms such as "cconstante", "cnostante", and "connstante". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "constat", "contant", "contente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is constante, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Valeur qui ne change pas. On les note souvent par une lettre minuscule non italicisée (contrairement à une variable, qui est toujours notée en italiques).
- 2Type de variable dont la valeur ne peut pas changer.
- 3Élève étranger.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconstante,cnostante,connstante,consatnte,consstante,constanet,constannte,constantte,constatne,constnate,consttante,contsante,cosntante,ocnstante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for constante
Misspelling Variants of "constante"
Frequency rank: #4,476 in French
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