hésitante
\e.zi.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“hésitante” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,341
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de hésitant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hesitante · hésitante · French
hésitante · rank #39,341 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,341
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hésitais
Nearest frequency peer: hésitais (-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 « hésitante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hydrique
hydrique
60,663 corpus weight
- hypothermie
hypothermie
60,662 corpus weight
- hésitais
hésitais
60,661 corpus weight
- hésitante
hésitante
60,660 corpus weight
- iconoclaste
iconoclaste
60,659 corpus weight
- ilan
ilan
60,658 corpus weight
What this shows « hésitante » 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 | hésitante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.zi.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hésitante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around hésitante (IPA \e.zi.tɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,341 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de hésitant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for hésitante, with forms such as "hesitante", "hhésitante", and "hséitante". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hésitent", "hésitant", "hésitait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hésitante, spelled H-É-S-I-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de hésitant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hésitante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pestant contre ce temps pourri — qui, pourtant, lui désembrumait peu à peu le cerveau —, Vladi s’était jeté dans les sous-bois, d’une démarche encore bien hésitante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hesitante
- hhésitante
- hséitante
- héistante
- hésiatnte
- hésitanet
- hésitannte
- hésitantte
- hésitatne
- hésitnate
- hésittante
- héssitante
- héstiante
- éhsitante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hésitante - 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 "hésitante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).