infant
\ɛ̃.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“infant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,860. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,860
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre qu’on donnait aux enfants puînés des rois d’Espagne et du Portugal ainsi qu’à ceux du duc de Parme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infant · infant · French
infant · rank #38,860 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,860
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inepties
Nearest frequency peer: inepties (-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 « infant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indécente
indécente
61,144 corpus weight
- indécision
indécision
61,143 corpus weight
- inepties
inepties
61,142 corpus weight
- infant
infant
61,141 corpus weight
- insoluble
insoluble
61,139 corpus weight
- insuffler
insuffler
61,138 corpus weight
What this shows « infant » 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 | infant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around infant (IPA \ɛ̃.fɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,860 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Titre qu’on donnait aux enfants puînés des rois d’Espagne et du Portugal ainsi qu’à ceux du duc de Parme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for infant, with forms such as "ifnant", "inafnt", and "infannt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "infini", "intact", "instant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is infant, spelled I-N-F-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Titre qu’on donnait aux enfants puînés des rois d’Espagne et du Portugal ainsi qu’à ceux du duc de Parme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jadis, à leur mort, on trouait le crâne des infants.
Celle-ci se trouvant à la cour et étant de belle apparence, l’infant dom Pedro vint à s’éprendre d’elle, ce que le roi comprit bien vite à cause des privautés que l’infant avait avec elle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnant
- inafnt
- infannt
- infantt
- infatn
- inffant
- infnat
- innfant
- nifant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infant - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).