errant
\ɛ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“errant” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,311
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne cesse de voyager ; vagabond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-errant · errant · French
errant · rank #21,311 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,311
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envisagées
Nearest frequency peer: envisagées (-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 « errant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enthousiast…
enthousiastes
78,693 corpus weight
- entrait
entrait
78,692 corpus weight
- envisagées
envisagées
78,691 corpus weight
- errant
errant
78,690 corpus weight
- escargot
escargot
78,689 corpus weight
- essaierai
essaierai
78,688 corpus weight
What this shows « errant » 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 | errant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « errant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around errant (IPA \ɛ.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,311 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for errant, with forms such as "erant", "erarnt", and "errannt". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "étant", "Erwan", "eurent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is errant, spelled E-R-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne cesse de voyager ; vagabond.
- 2Qualifie une imagination vagabonde, sans frein, qui se porte rapidement sur un grand nombre d’objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how errant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques chiffres donneront l'idée des prises que la police peut faire sur les chiens errants des grandes villes et montreront combien son action peut être efficace à diminuer, par une chasse régulière, le nombre des chiens errants qui peuvent devenir les propagateurs de la rage.
Ils retraçaient la vie glorieuse des anciens chevaliers errants toujours au service du faible contre le fort .
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erant
- erarnt
- errannt
- errantt
- erratn
- errnat
- rerant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of errant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).