informant

Name: informant, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“informant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,819
frequency rank, French: 3,561
“I” headwords: 14
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fournit des informations.

Corpus desk

Index FR-informant · informant · French

informant · rank #29,819 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #29,819
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 14 variants
BOOK-MID 3,561
PHOTO-FINISH inconscience

Nearest frequency peer: inconscience (-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.

inclinés

70,185
incompris

70,184
inconscience

70,183
informant

70,182
informent

70,181
initiatique

70,180

What this shows « informant » 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).

informant vs informent

89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for informant
Property	Value
Headword	informant
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#29,819
Misspellings tracked	14
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « informant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).informantse place ici:

#29,819

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « inconscience » (#29,818), « informent » (#29,820), « incompris » (#29,817). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « informant » est au #29,819. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around informant (IPA \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,819 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui fournit des informations.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for informant, with forms such as "ifnormant", "infformant", and "infomrant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "informent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is informant, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T.

Definition

1
Celui qui fournit des informations.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how informant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Pour tous les incidents de ce récit à partir de sa petite enfance, Michel est mon principal, et le plus souvent mon seul informant. Là où il a choisi de se taire, je ne puis qu’enregistrer son silence.

Synonyms

informateur

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ifnormant
infformant
infomrant
inforamnt
informannt
informantt
informatn
informmant
informnat
inforrmant
infromant
innformant
inofrmant
niformant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of informant - 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.

Edit distance from "informant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "informant"?

"informant" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\.

What does "informant" mean?

As a noun, "informant" means: Celui qui fournit des informations.

What words are commonly confused with "informant"?

"informant" is commonly confused with "informent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "informant"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "informant" is \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "informant" come from?

"informant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "informant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

informent#29,820 incompris#29,817 insultent#29,823 inaugural#29,814

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

initiatique14 variants impuretés14 variants illustrées14 variants Houellebecq14 variants