formant
\fɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“formant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,568
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fréquence qui caractérise le timbre d’une voyelle lors de la parole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formant · formant · French
formant · rank #7,568 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,568
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flandre
Nearest frequency peer: Flandre (-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 « formant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- feraient
feraient
92,437 corpus weight
- Ferrari
Ferrari
92,436 corpus weight
- Flandre
Flandre
92,434 corpus weight
- formant
formant
92,433 corpus weight
- frein
frein
92,432 corpus weight
- galeries
galeries
92,431 corpus weight
What this shows « formant » 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 | formant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around formant (IPA \fɔʁ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,568 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for formant, with forms such as "fformant", "fomrant", and "foramnt". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "format", "fumant", "forment", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is formant, spelled F-O-R-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fréquence qui caractérise le timbre d’une voyelle lors de la parole.
- 2Élément de construction grammatical qui n’a souvent pas de signification par lui-même, tels que les affixes.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformant
- fomrant
- foramnt
- formannt
- formantt
- formatn
- formmant
- formnat
- forrmant
- fromant
- ofrmant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).