correspondent

/\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\/ verb

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,851

in French word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

correspondent is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de correspondre. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\. It ranks #5,851 in French word frequency. Often confused with corresponde and correspondant.

Key facts for correspondent
PropertyValue
Headwordcorrespondent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\
Letters13
Frequency rank#5,851
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for correspondent is 13 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,851 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for correspondent, with forms such as "ccorrespondent", "corerspondent", and "corespondent". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "corresponde", "correspondant", "correspondait", 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 correspondent, spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de correspondre.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de correspondre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorrespondent,corerspondent,corespondent,correpsondent,corresopndent,correspnodent,correspodnent,corresponddent,correspondennt,correspondentt,correspondetn,correspondnet,corresponednt,corresponndent,corresppondent,corresspondent,corrsepondent,crorespondent,ocrrespondent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correspondent

Misspelling Variants of "correspondent"

ccorrespondent14corerspondent13corespondent12correpsondent13corresopndent13correspnodent13correspodnent13corresponddent14
Misspelling Variants of "correspondent"

Frequency rank: #5,851 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correspondent"?
"correspondent" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\.
What does "correspondent" mean?
As a verb, "correspondent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de correspondre.
What words are commonly confused with "correspondent"?
"correspondent" is commonly confused with "corresponde", "correspondant", "correspondait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "correspondent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correspondent" is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correspondent" come from?
"correspondent" 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.