isolant

adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,912

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

isolant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne transmet pas librement l’électricité. Often confused with isolants and isola.

Key facts for isolant
PropertyValue
Headwordisolant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,912
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of isolant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for isolant is 7 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #23,912 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for isolant, with forms such as "ioslant", "isloant", and "isoalnt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "isolants", "isola", "island", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is isolant, spelled I-S-O-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne transmet pas librement l’électricité.
  2. 2
    Isolant thermique. Qui ne transmet pas facilement la chaleur.
  3. 3
    Caractérise une langue dont les mots sont fait de peu de morphèmes, avec un seul morphème par mot dans les cas extrêmes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ioslant,isloant,isoalnt,isolannt,isolantt,isolatn,isollant,isolnat,issolant,siolant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for isolant

Misspelling Variants of "isolant"

ioslant7isloant7isoalnt7isolannt8isolantt8isolatn7isollant8isolnat7
Misspelling Variants of "isolant"

Frequency rank: #23,912 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "isolant"?
"isolant" is spelled I-S-O-L-A-N-T.
What does "isolant" mean?
As an adj, "isolant" means: Qui ne transmet pas librement l’électricité.
What words are commonly confused with "isolant"?
"isolant" is commonly confused with "isolants", "isola", "island". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "isolant" come from?
"isolant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.