fascinant
\fa.si.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“fascinant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,159
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui suscite une profonde attirance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fascinant · fascinant · French
fascinant · rank #10,159 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,159
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferdinand
Nearest frequency peer: Ferdinand (+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 « fascinant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exploitatio…
exploitations
89,846 corpus weight
- fabriqués
fabriqués
89,845 corpus weight
- faces
faces
89,844 corpus weight
- fascinant
fascinant
89,842 corpus weight
- Ferdinand
Ferdinand
89,841 corpus weight
- figurer
figurer
89,840 corpus weight
What this shows « fascinant » 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 | fascinant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.si.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fascinant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around fascinant (IPA \fa.si.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,159 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui suscite une profonde attirance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for fascinant, with forms such as "afscinant", "facsinant", and "fasccinant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fascinante", "fascinants", "fascinantes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 fascinant, spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui suscite une profonde attirance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fascinant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien n’a pu effacer le souvenir de la sauvagerie de la pointe du Raz et de la Baie des Trépassés, et l’horreur fascinante de la mer mugissant dans l'enfer de Plogoff.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afscinant
- facsinant
- fasccinant
- fasciannt
- fascinannt
- fascinantt
- fascinatn
- fascinnant
- fascinnat
- fascniant
- fasicnant
- fasscinant
- ffascinant
- fsacinant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fascinant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).