hilarant
\i.la.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“hilarant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,502
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait rire ; qui excite à l’hilarité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hilarant · hilarant · French
hilarant · rank #18,502 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,502
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heurté
Nearest frequency peer: heurté (-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 « hilarant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- graphiste
graphiste
81,503 corpus weight
- guidée
guidée
81,502 corpus weight
- guérit
guérit
81,501 corpus weight
- heurté
heurté
81,500 corpus weight
- hilarant
hilarant
81,499 corpus weight
- hospitalisé
hospitalisé
81,497 corpus weight
What this shows « hilarant » 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 | hilarant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.la.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hilarant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hilarant (IPA \i.la.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,502 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui fait rire ; qui excite à l’hilarité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hilarant, with forms such as "hhilarant", "hialrant", and "hilaarnt". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hilarante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hilarant, spelled H-I-L-A-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait rire ; qui excite à l’hilarité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hilarant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la Terrasse, d’Ettore Scola, Trintignant joue le concocteur professionnel de scénarios hilarants et se passe — moins marrant — le doigt en entier dans le taille-crayon électrique que lui a offert son producteur-manager-pompeur de rigolo-esclavagiste.
Mais pour le garder auprès de lui, il déploie sa maîtrise romanesque ultraconvaincante : par sa sobriété remarquable, par son sens souvent hilarant du micro-détail, il offre une belle densité à ses personnages.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhilarant
- hialrant
- hilaarnt
- hilarannt
- hilarantt
- hilaratn
- hilarnat
- hilarrant
- hillarant
- hilraant
- hliarant
- ihlarant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hilarant - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).