encourageant
The verdict
“encourageant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,367
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui encourage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encourageant · encourageant · French
encourageant · rank #15,367 · 17 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,367
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emblématiques
Nearest frequency peer: emblématiques (-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 « encourageant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détaillées
détaillées
84,638 corpus weight
- détenteurs
détenteurs
84,637 corpus weight
- effectuent
effectuent
84,636 corpus weight
- emblématiqu…
emblématiques
84,635 corpus weight
- encourageant
encourageant
84,634 corpus weight
- engendrer
engendrer
84,633 corpus weight
What this shows « encourageant » 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 | encourageant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #15,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encourageant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around encourageant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,367 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui encourage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for encourageant, with forms such as "ecnourageant", "enccourageant", and "encoruageant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "encouragent", "encourageons", "encouragement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 encourageant, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui encourage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encourageant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 15 avril, comme on meurt toujours malgré les déclarations encourageantes du corps médical et de la presse, on triture les chiffres pour trouver des raisons d'espérer.
Je les avais averties, en entrant, du caractère et de la jeunesse de mon invité, en leur recommandant d’être un peu encourageantes avec lui, sans trop cesser d’être convenables. Je n’oserais pas assurer qu’elles restèrent tout à fait convenables, mais le certain, c’est qu’elles furent encourageantes au possible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnourageant
- enccourageant
- encoruageant
- encouargeant
- encouraegant
- encouragaent
- encourageannt
- encourageantt
- encourageatn
- encouragenat
- encouraggeant
- encourgaeant
- encourrageant
- encuorageant
- enncourageant
- enocurageant
- necourageant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encourageant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).