consultant

/\kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,673

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

consultant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui donne avis et conseil. Pronounced \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\. It ranks #7,673 in French word frequency. Often confused with consulting and consultent.

Key facts for consultant
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Headwordconsultant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,673
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of consultant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for consultant is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,673 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 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for consultant, with forms such as "cconsultant", "cnosultant", and "connsultant". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "consulting", "consultent", "consultants", 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 consultant, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui donne avis et conseil.
  2. 2
    Qualifie l’avocat qui donne son avis et son conseil par écrit ou de vive voix sur les affaires litigieuses.
  3. 3
    Qualifie le médecin qui est appelé en consultation.

Antonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconsultant,cnosultant,connsultant,conslutant,conssultant,consulatnt,consulltant,consultannt,consultantt,consultatn,consultnat,consulttant,consutlant,conusltant,cosnultant,ocnsultant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for consultant

Misspelling Variants of "consultant"

cconsultant11cnosultant10connsultant11conslutant10conssultant11consulatnt10consulltant11consultannt11
Misspelling Variants of "consultant"

Frequency rank: #7,673 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "consultant"?
"consultant" is spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\.
What does "consultant" mean?
As an adj, "consultant" means: Qui donne avis et conseil.
What words are commonly confused with "consultant"?
"consultant" is commonly confused with "consulting", "consultent", "consultants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "consultant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consultant" is \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "consultant" come from?
"consultant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.