exigeant
\ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“exigeant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,999
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans l’habitude d’exiger beaucoup ou trop de déférence, d’attentions, de travail, d’argent, de services.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exigeant · exigeant · French
exigeant · rank #9,999 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,999
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH explicite
Nearest frequency peer: explicite (+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 « exigeant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enquêter
enquêter
90,006 corpus weight
- entraînant
entraînant
90,005 corpus weight
- exigeant
exigeant
90,002 corpus weight
- explicite
explicite
90,001 corpus weight
- expriment
expriment
90,000 corpus weight
- facultés
facultés
89,999 corpus weight
What this shows « exigeant » 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 | exigeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exigeant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around exigeant (IPA \ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,999 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est dans l’habitude d’exiger beaucoup ou trop de déférence, d’attentions, de travail, d’argent, de services.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for exigeant, with forms such as "eixgeant", "exgieant", and "exiegant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "exigent", "existant", "exigeons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is exigeant, spelled E-X-I-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’habitude d’exiger beaucoup ou trop de déférence, d’attentions, de travail, d’argent, de services.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exigeant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un duel de générations a opposé, dimanche, Sébastien Ogier, 39 ans, au Finlandais Kalle Rovanperä, 22 ans, sur les exigeantes pistes rocailleuses du Kenya.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eixgeant
- exgieant
- exiegant
- exigaent
- exigeannt
- exigeantt
- exigeatn
- exigenat
- exiggeant
- exxigeant
- xeigeant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exigeant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).