félicitant
\fe.li.si.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“félicitant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,105
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de féliciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-felicitant · félicitant · French
félicitant · rank #49,105 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,105
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fustiger
Nearest frequency peer: fustiger (-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 « félicitant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frontales
frontales
50,898 corpus weight
- fustiger
fustiger
50,897 corpus weight
- félicitant
félicitant
50,896 corpus weight
- gageons
gageons
50,895 corpus weight
- Galien
Galien
50,894 corpus weight
- gardiennes
gardiennes
50,893 corpus weight
What this shows « félicitant » 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 | félicitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.li.si.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « félicitant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around félicitant (IPA \fe.li.si.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,105 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de féliciter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for félicitant, with forms such as "felicitant", "ffélicitant", and "fléicitant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "félicitent", "félicitons", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is félicitant, spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de féliciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how félicitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les biens dominicalement bourgeois que mon caddie rapporte à la maison – huîtres, poulet rôti, brillat-savarin double crème, tarte aux mirabelles – satisferaient l’amante, épouse et grand-mère A.M., qui, nous félicitant de « ne pas avoir traîné », accentuerait le bonheur de la retrouver.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- felicitant
- ffélicitant
- fléicitant
- féilcitant
- félciitant
- féliccitant
- féliciatnt
- félicitannt
- félicitantt
- félicitatn
- félicitnat
- félicittant
- félictiant
- féliictant
- féllicitant
- éflicitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of félicitant - 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 "félicitant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).