existent
\ɛɡ.zist\
The verdict
“existent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,255
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe exister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-existent · existent · French
existent · rank #3,255 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,255
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espérer
Nearest frequency peer: espérer (-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 « existent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envoi
envoi
96,749 corpus weight
- espaces
espaces
96,748 corpus weight
- espérer
espérer
96,747 corpus weight
- existent
existent
96,746 corpus weight
- extraordina…
extraordinaire
96,745 corpus weight
- faibles
faibles
96,744 corpus weight
What this shows « existent » 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 | existent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « existent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around existent (IPA \ɛɡ.zist\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,255 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for existent, with forms such as "eixstent", "exisetnt", and "exisstent". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "exister", "existes", "existera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is existent, spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe exister.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe exister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how existent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De toute façon, peuvent-ils dire : « La laïcité, c’est une affaire d’Occidentaux des sociétés sécularisées », ce qui ne tient pas compte des nombreuses sociétés sacrales qui existent encore aujourd’hui.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eixstent
- exisetnt
- exisstent
- existennt
- existentt
- existetn
- existnet
- existtent
- exitsent
- exsitent
- exxistent
- xeistent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of existent - 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 "existent", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).