éclatant
\e.kla.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“éclatant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,740
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de l’éclat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclatant · éclatant · French
éclatant · rank #22,740 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,740
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH yon
Nearest frequency peer: yon (-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 « éclatant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- véto
véto
77,264 corpus weight
- yon
yon
77,262 corpus weight
- éclatant
éclatant
77,261 corpus weight
- égaler
égaler
77,260 corpus weight
- égalisation
égalisation
77,259 corpus weight
- éliminant
éliminant
77,258 corpus weight
What this shows « éclatant » 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 | éclatant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kla.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éclatant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around éclatant (IPA \e.kla.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,740 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for éclatant, with forms such as "célatant", "eclatant", and "écaltant". 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, "épatant", "écoutant", "éclatent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is éclatant, spelled É-C-L-A-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a de l’éclat.
- 2Qui fait un bruit perçant.
- 3Qualifie les choses qui se font remarquer, entre toutes les autres choses semblables, par leur importance, leur célébrité, leur publicité, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éclatant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jour était ensoleillé, de telle sorte qu’après cette lumière éclatante du dehors, sa chambre, au rez-de-chaussée, me paraissait tout à fait noire.
On retrouve chez Abramow un héritage lisible de Guy Bourdin (1928-1991), immense photographe des années 1970, dont les cadrages acrobatiques, et les couleurs éclatantes, rendaient les mannequins à la fois ultrasexys et parfaitement puissantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- célatant
- eclatant
- écaltant
- écclatant
- éclaatnt
- éclatannt
- éclatantt
- éclatatn
- éclatnat
- éclattant
- écllatant
- écltaant
- élcatant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éclatant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).