gisant
\ʒi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“gisant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,976
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est couché, étendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gisant · gisant · French
gisant · rank #31,976 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,976
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GIGN
Nearest frequency peer: GIGN (-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 « gisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gaver
gaver
68,029 corpus weight
- GIGN
GIGN
68,026 corpus weight
- gisant
gisant
68,025 corpus weight
- Goodman
Goodman
68,024 corpus weight
- goose
goose
68,023 corpus weight
- gouin
gouin
68,022 corpus weight
What this shows « gisant » 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 | gisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gisant (IPA \ʒi.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,976 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gisant, with forms such as "ggisant", "giasnt", and "gisannt". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "grant", "gitan", "gitans", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gisant, spelled G-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est couché, étendu.
- 2Se dit d'un quadrupède (en particulier un cerf) qui est représenté couché. À rapprocher de couché, dormant, embarroqué, en forme et en repos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voyait que la victime avait été frappée au moment où, à genoux devant le tonneau, elle commençait à remplir une bouteille, qui lui avait échappé des mains et qui était gisante à ses côtés.
Il aurait arrêté le Diable et demandé leurs passeports aux gisantes multitudes ressuscitées par le souffle d’Ézéchiel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggisant
- giasnt
- gisannt
- gisantt
- gisatn
- gisnat
- gissant
- gsiant
- igsant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gisant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gisant", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).