emportant
\ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“emportant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,193
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui emporte, qui entraîne
Corpus desk
Index FR-emportant · emportant · French
emportant · rank #18,193 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,193
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empoisonnement
Nearest frequency peer: empoisonnement (-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 « emportant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emmerdes
emmerdes
81,811 corpus weight
- empirer
empirer
81,810 corpus weight
- empoisonnem…
empoisonnement
81,809 corpus weight
- emportant
emportant
81,808 corpus weight
- entraînée
entraînée
81,807 corpus weight
- envier
envier
81,806 corpus weight
What this shows « emportant » 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 | emportant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « emportant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around emportant (IPA \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,193 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for emportant, with forms such as "emmportant", "emoprtant", and "emporatnt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "emportent", "exportent", "emporta", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is emportant, spelled E-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui emporte, qui entraîne
- 2Qui est emporté, sujet à la colère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emportant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans sa vacuité même, son dépouillement et sa règle sévère, elle semblait appeler et mériter la récompense d’un émoi plus emportant que tout ce que la vie de fêtes d’Orsenna m’avait offert de médiocre et de raffiné.
La manière emportante qu’a Mme Guilloux d’expliquer Iphigénie nous fait presque comprendre qu’on puisse sacrifier une fille pour du vent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmportant
- emoprtant
- emporatnt
- emporrtant
- emportannt
- emportantt
- emportatn
- emportnat
- emporttant
- empotrant
- empportant
- emprotant
- epmortant
- meportant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of emportant - 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 "emportant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).