frottant
\fʁɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“frottant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,452
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui frotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frottant · frottant · French
frottant · rank #43,452 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frexit
Nearest frequency peer: Frexit (-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 « frottant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Frau
Frau
56,551 corpus weight
- Frexit
Frexit
56,550 corpus weight
- frottant
frottant
56,549 corpus weight
- fructose
fructose
56,548 corpus weight
- fuyards
fuyards
56,547 corpus weight
- féerie
féerie
56,546 corpus weight
What this shows « frottant » 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 | frottant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frottant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around frottant (IPA \fʁɔ.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,452 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui frotte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for frottant, with forms such as "ffrottant", "forttant", and "frotant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "frottent", "flottant", "flottent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frottant, spelled F-R-O-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui frotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frottant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’usure a rarement lieu d’une manière égale sur toute la surface, parce que les parties frottantes n’ont pas partout la même dureté ni la même fatigue. Les parcelles détachées se forment en globules très-durs, qui rayent la surface et la creusent rapidement. C’est ce qu’on nomme gripper. Cet effet est accompagné d’un échauffement des pièces frottantes, tr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffrottant
- forttant
- frotant
- frotatnt
- frottannt
- frottantt
- frottatn
- frottnat
- frrottant
- frtotant
- rfottant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frottant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).