correspondante

/\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,345

in French word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

correspondante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est attachée par ce titre à un corps savant. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\. Often confused with correspondent and correspondants.

Key facts for correspondante
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Headwordcorrespondante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\
Letters14
Frequency rank#15,345
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for correspondante is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,345 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for correspondante, with forms such as "ccorrespondante", "corerspondante", and "corespondante". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "correspondent", "correspondants", "correspondantes", 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 correspondante, spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est attachée par ce titre à un corps savant.
  2. 2
    Celle avec qui on est en commerce réglé de lettres, pour affaires, pour nouvelles, etc.
  3. 3
    Celle qui s’est chargé de remplacer les parents et de veiller sur un enfant envoyé comme interne dans un établissement d’instruction pour faire ses études.
  4. 4
    Journaliste envoyée à un endroit pour recueillir des informations sur place.
  5. 5
    Celle qui entretient une correspondance avec quelqu’un.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorrespondante,corerspondante,corespondante,correpsondante,corresopndante,correspnodante,correspodnante,corresponadnte,correspondanet,correspondannte,correspondantte,correspondatne,corresponddante,correspondnate,corresponndante,corresppondante,corresspondante,corrsepondante,crorespondante,ocrrespondante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correspondante

Misspelling Variants of "correspondante"

ccorrespondante15corerspondante14corespondante13correpsondante14corresopndante14correspnodante14correspodnante14corresponadnte14
Misspelling Variants of "correspondante"

Frequency rank: #15,345 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correspondante"?
"correspondante" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\.
What does "correspondante" mean?
As a noun, "correspondante" means: Celle qui est attachée par ce titre à un corps savant.
What words are commonly confused with "correspondante"?
"correspondante" is commonly confused with "correspondent", "correspondants", "correspondantes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "correspondante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correspondante" is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correspondante" come from?
"correspondante" 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.