éprouvant
\e.pʁu.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“éprouvant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,301
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de l'épreuve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eprouvant · éprouvant · French
éprouvant · rank #27,301 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,301
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épiscopat
Nearest frequency peer: épiscopat (-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 « éprouvant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épargnée
épargnée
72,703 corpus weight
- épiscopat
épiscopat
72,701 corpus weight
- éprouvant
éprouvant
72,700 corpus weight
- étudiait
étudiait
72,699 corpus weight
- évacue
évacue
72,698 corpus weight
- évacuée
évacuée
72,697 corpus weight
What this shows « éprouvant » 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 | éprouvant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éprouvant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around éprouvant (IPA \e.pʁu.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,301 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tient de l'épreuve.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for éprouvant, with forms such as "eprouvant", "pérouvant", and "époruvant". 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, "éprouvent", "éprouvante", "émouvant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 éprouvant, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui tient de l'épreuve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éprouvant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une journée éprouvante de darons, une partie d’Imaginarium, c’est tout sauf du repos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprouvant
- pérouvant
- époruvant
- épprouvant
- éprouavnt
- éprouvannt
- éprouvantt
- éprouvatn
- éprouvnat
- éprouvvant
- éprovuant
- éprrouvant
- épruovant
- érpouvant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éprouvant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).