feinte
\fɛ̃t\
The verdict
“feinte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,856
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de feindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feinte · feinte · French
feinte · rank #22,856 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,856
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fautif
Nearest frequency peer: fautif (-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 « feinte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fabio
Fabio
77,148 corpus weight
- facilitant
facilitant
77,147 corpus weight
- fautif
fautif
77,146 corpus weight
- feinte
feinte
77,145 corpus weight
- ferrer
ferrer
77,144 corpus weight
- festif
festif
77,143 corpus weight
What this shows « feinte » 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 | feinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « feinte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around feinte (IPA \fɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,856 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for feinte, with forms such as "efinte", "feinet", and "feinnte". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "fête", "fine", "fuite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is feinte, spelled F-E-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action de feindre.
- 2Coup dirigé vers un endroit et redirigé ailleurs au dernier moment.
- 3fausse information dans la préparation de la frappe afin de perturber la reprise d'appuis de l'adversaire. Ne pas confondre avec une fixation.
- 4Mot drôle, blague.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feinte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute sa dévotion n’est que feinte.
Parlez sans feinte.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efinte
- feinet
- feinnte
- feintte
- feitne
- fenite
- ffeinte
- fiente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feinte - 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 "feinte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).