consternant
The verdict
“consternant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,721
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui attriste, qui angoisse jusqu’à provoquer l’accablement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consternant · consternant · French
consternant · rank #39,721 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,721
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conseilles
Nearest frequency peer: conseilles (-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 « consternant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conor
conor
60,283 corpus weight
- conscrits
conscrits
60,282 corpus weight
- conseilles
conseilles
60,281 corpus weight
- consternant
consternant
60,280 corpus weight
- contest
contest
60,279 corpus weight
- contrebandi…
contrebandiers
60,278 corpus weight
What this shows « consternant » 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 | consternant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #39,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consternant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around consternant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,721 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for consternant, with forms such as "cconsternant", "cnosternant", and "connsternant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contenant", "concernant", "conservant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 consternant, spelled C-O-N-S-T-E-R-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui attriste, qui angoisse jusqu’à provoquer l’accablement.
- 2Scandaleux, que l’on a du mal à comprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consternant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicolas, lui, ne parlait pratiquement pas, et lorsqu’il percevait cette effervescence, il en était plutôt paniqué, on sentait monter en lui comme une consternante angoisse.
D’un point de vue officiel c’est tout simplement consternant.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsternant
- cnosternant
- connsternant
- consetrnant
- conssternant
- constenrant
- consterannt
- consternannt
- consternantt
- consternatn
- consternnant
- consternnat
- consterrnant
- constrenant
- constternant
- contsernant
- cosnternant
- ocnsternant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consternant - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).