constants
\kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“constants” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,582
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de constant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constants · constants · French
constants · rank #16,582 · 15 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,582
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consenti
Nearest frequency peer: consenti (-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 « constants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conditionne…
conditionnelle
83,422 corpus weight
- conduira
conduira
83,421 corpus weight
- consenti
consenti
83,420 corpus weight
- constants
constants
83,419 corpus weight
- construisent
construisent
83,418 corpus weight
- contrées
contrées
83,417 corpus weight
What this shows « constants » 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 | constants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « constants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around constants (IPA \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de constant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for constants, with forms such as "cconstants", "cnostants", and "connstants". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "constat", "contant", "constate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 constants, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de constant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how constants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1814, fatigué de travaux constants, M. de Sérisy, dont la santé délabrée exigeait du repos, résigna tous ses emplois, quitta le gouvernement à la tête duquel l’Empereur l’avait mis, et vint à Paris où Napoléon, forcé par l’évidence, lui rendit justice.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstants
- cnostants
- connstants
- consatnts
- consstants
- constannts
- constanst
- constantss
- constantts
- constatns
- constnats
- consttants
- contsants
- cosntants
- ocnstants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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