époustouflant
\e.pus.tu.flɑ̃\
The verdict
“époustouflant” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,793
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sidérant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epoustouflant · époustouflant · French
époustouflant · rank #31,793 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,793
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énerves
Nearest frequency peer: énerves (-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 « époustouflant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écrasent
écrasent
68,211 corpus weight
- émanation
émanation
68,210 corpus weight
- énerves
énerves
68,209 corpus weight
- époustoufla…
époustouflant
68,208 corpus weight
- épître
épître
68,207 corpus weight
- œcuménique
œcuménique
68,205 corpus weight
What this shows « époustouflant » 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 | époustouflant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pus.tu.flɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #31,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « époustouflant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around époustouflant (IPA \e.pus.tu.flɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,793 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sidérant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for époustouflant, with forms such as "epoustouflant", "péoustouflant", and "éopustouflant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "époustouflante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is époustouflant, spelled É-P-O-U-S-T-O-U-F-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Sidérant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how époustouflant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ma part, je ne connaissais encore que très vaguement, de la bouche de mon père ou de mes professeurs, l’époustouflante histoire de l’empire grec byzantin.
Son interprète principal, Dustin Hoffman, est époustouflant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epoustouflant
- péoustouflant
- éopustouflant
- éposutouflant
- épousotuflant
- épousstouflant
- époustofulant
- époustoufalnt
- époustoufflant
- époustouflannt
- époustouflantt
- époustouflatn
- époustoufllant
- époustouflnat
- époustoulfant
- épousttouflant
- époustuoflant
- époutsouflant
- éppoustouflant
- épuostouflant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of époustouflant - 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 "époustouflant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).