grattant
\ɡʁa.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“grattant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,561
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe gratter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grattant · grattant · French
grattant · rank #48,561 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grammaires
Nearest frequency peer: grammaires (-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 « grattant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gonflant
gonflant
51,443 corpus weight
- gradation
gradation
51,442 corpus weight
- grammaires
grammaires
51,441 corpus weight
- grattant
grattant
51,440 corpus weight
- Groix
Groix
51,439 corpus weight
- grouper
grouper
51,438 corpus weight
What this shows « grattant » 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 | grattant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grattant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around grattant (IPA \ɡʁa.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe gratter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for grattant, with forms such as "garttant", "ggrattant", and "gratant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gratton", "grattage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grattant, spelled G-R-A-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe gratter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garttant
- ggrattant
- gratant
- gratatnt
- grattannt
- grattantt
- grattatn
- grattnat
- grrattant
- grtatant
- rgattant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grattant - 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 "grattant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).