consultant
\kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“consultant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,673
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui donne avis et conseil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consultant · consultant · French
consultant · rank #7,673 · 16 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,673
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitutionn…
Nearest frequency peer: constitutionnelle (-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 « consultant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compensation
compensation
92,331 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionnelle
92,329 corpus weight
- consultant
consultant
92,328 corpus weight
- contraste
contraste
92,327 corpus weight
- coureurs
coureurs
92,326 corpus weight
- creuser
creuser
92,325 corpus weight
What this shows « consultant » 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 | consultant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consultant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around consultant (IPA \kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,673 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for consultant, with forms such as "cconsultant", "cnosultant", and "connsultant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is consultant, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui donne avis et conseil.
- 2Qualifie l’avocat qui donne son avis et son conseil par écrit ou de vive voix sur les affaires litigieuses.
- 3Qualifie 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consultant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "consultant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).