faisant
\fə.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“faisant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #821
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faisant · faisant · French
faisant · rank #821 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #821
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH entendu
Nearest frequency peer: entendu (-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 « faisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- code
code
99,183 corpus weight
- entendu
entendu
99,181 corpus weight
- faisant
faisant
99,180 corpus weight
- gagner
gagner
99,179 corpus weight
- honneur
honneur
99,178 corpus weight
- journal
journal
99,177 corpus weight
What this shows « faisant » 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 | faisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fə.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around faisant (IPA \fə.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #821 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe faire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for faisant, with forms such as "afisant", "faiasnt", and "faisannt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "fixant", "filant", "faisons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 faisant, spelled F-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette interprétation transhistoricise le dit « esprit du capitalisme », faisant de la tradition un obstacle à une nature humaine à priori compatible avec une morale capitaliste moderne.
Ne va-t-il pas jusqu’à comparer le fait de se déberbériser à l’acte de sortir de la jâhiliya en se faisant musulman ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afisant
- faiasnt
- faisannt
- faisantt
- faisatn
- faisnat
- faissant
- fasiant
- ffaisant
- fiasant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faisant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "faisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).