constituent
\kɔ̃s.ti.ty\
The verdict
“constituent” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,834. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,834
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de constituer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constituent · constituent · French
constituent · rank #3,834 · 17 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,834
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conservateur
Nearest frequency peer: conservateur (-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 « constituent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- connard
connard
96,170 corpus weight
- conseillers
conseillers
96,169 corpus weight
- conservateur
conservateur
96,168 corpus weight
- constituent
constituent
96,167 corpus weight
- descendre
descendre
96,166 corpus weight
- devoirs
devoirs
96,165 corpus weight
What this shows « constituent » 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 | constituent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.ti.ty\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « constituent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around constituent (IPA \kɔ̃s.ti.ty\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for constituent, with forms such as "cconstituent", "cnostituent", and "connstituent". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "continuent", "constituer", "constitués", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is constituent, spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de constituer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de constituer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how constituent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pouvoirs de police constituent l’enjeu d’une lutte séculaire qui tourne autour de cette question fondamentale : la police est-elle une prérogative municipale ou ressortit-elle au domaine de l’Etat ?
Le tellure et l’arsénic, que l’eau, aidée de l’action de la pile, semble composer en combustibles acidifiables hydrogénés, paraissent toutefois faire exception à cette règle ; mais ces corps ne s’acidifient ainsi dans leur base que pour se combiner avec les alcalis, et alors encore l’hydrogène par lequel ils forment des hydrogéno-tellurures et arséniures…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstituent
- cnostituent
- connstituent
- consittuent
- consstituent
- constiteunt
- constittuent
- constituennt
- constituentt
- constituetn
- constitunet
- constiutent
- consttituent
- consttiuent
- contsituent
- cosntituent
- ocnstituent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constituent - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).