espérant
\ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“espérant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,452
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de espérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esperant · espérant · French
espérant · rank #5,452 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enthousiasme
Nearest frequency peer: enthousiasme (-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 « espérant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- effectifs
effectifs
94,553 corpus weight
- Emma
Emma
94,552 corpus weight
- enseignant
enseignant
94,551 corpus weight
- enthousiasme
enthousiasme
94,550 corpus weight
- espérant
espérant
94,549 corpus weight
- examens
examens
94,547 corpus weight
What this shows « espérant » 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 | espérant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espérant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around espérant (IPA \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,452 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de espérer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for espérant, with forms such as "epsérant", "esperant", and "esppérant". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "espérons", "espèrent", "espéranto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is espérant, spelled E-S-P-É-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de espérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous tournâmes autour de la chapelle, espérant trouver un presbytère, un recteur ; mais l’église était close.
Comme dans les prépas scientifiques, il est tout à fait possible de la redoubler (on dit « cuber ») en espérant être accepté dans une école plus prestigieuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsérant
- esperant
- esppérant
- espréant
- espéarnt
- espérannt
- espérantt
- espératn
- espérnat
- espérrant
- esspérant
- eséprant
- sepérant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espérant - 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 "espérant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).