lâchant
\la.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“lâchant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,881
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de lâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachant · lâchant · French
lâchant · rank #41,881 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,881
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luxueuses
Nearest frequency peer: luxueuses (-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 « lâchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lunel
lunel
58,123 corpus weight
- lutteurs
lutteurs
58,122 corpus weight
- luxueuses
luxueuses
58,121 corpus weight
- lâchant
lâchant
58,120 corpus weight
- Mado
Mado
58,119 corpus weight
- mahal
mahal
58,118 corpus weight
What this shows « lâchant » 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 | lâchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lâchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around lâchant (IPA \la.ʃɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,881 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de lâcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for lâchant, with forms such as "lachant", "lcâhant", and "llâchant". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lavant", "lançant", "lâchent", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lâchant, spelled L-Â-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de lâcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lâchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, dans le même temps, tout en lâchant de l’épisse dans les ardoirs, je crois bien faire en dralant ma grande fourgale pour amincir les étalingures qui commandent la mollisseuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lachant
- lcâhant
- llâchant
- lâcahnt
- lâcchant
- lâchannt
- lâchantt
- lâchatn
- lâchhant
- lâchnat
- lâhcant
- âlchant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lâchant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "lâchant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).