échappant
\e.ʃa.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“échappant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,799. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,799
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de échapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echappant · échappant · French
échappant · rank #28,799 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,799
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Zuckerberg
Nearest frequency peer: Zuckerberg (-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 « échappant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Yaya
Yaya
71,205 corpus weight
- Yukon
Yukon
71,204 corpus weight
- Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg
71,203 corpus weight
- échappant
échappant
71,202 corpus weight
- éclairages
éclairages
71,201 corpus weight
- Édimbourg
Édimbourg
71,200 corpus weight
What this shows « échappant » 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 | échappant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échappant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around échappant (IPA \e.ʃa.pɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,799 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de échapper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for échappant, with forms such as "céhappant", "echappant", and "écahppant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "échappent", "échappa", "échappait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is échappant, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de échapper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échappant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des centaines de têtes, pour beaucoup dûment casquettées et de mauvais gré décasquettées avant d’entrer, pour souvent tenter aussitôt de se recasquetter en échappant, pour quelques instants volés, au regard vigilant du CPE ; des garçons en survêtement, d’autres en baggy trop larges laissant voir leur caleçon, des filles en survêt aussi, en jean et pour le…
Le premier évadé du « train fantôme », qui avait faussé compagnie aux soldats allemands dans ce village lot-et-garonnais, une nuit de juillet 1944, en s’échappant par la lucarne d’un wagon où une centaine de personnes avaient été entassées pour être déportées, a définitivement pris le large.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhappant
- echappant
- écahppant
- écchappant
- échapant
- échapapnt
- échappannt
- échappantt
- échappatn
- échappnat
- échhappant
- échpapant
- éhcappant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échappant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).