lancent
\lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“lancent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,686
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancent · lancent · French
lancent · rank #9,686 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Julian
Nearest frequency peer: Julian (-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 « lancent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jouera
jouera
90,317 corpus weight
- Julian
Julian
90,316 corpus weight
- lancent
lancent
90,315 corpus weight
- led
led
90,314 corpus weight
- lesbienne
lesbienne
90,313 corpus weight
- licenciement
licenciement
90,312 corpus weight
What this shows « lancent » 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 | lancent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lancent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lancent (IPA \lɑ̃s\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,686 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lancent, with forms such as "alncent", "lacnent", and "lanccent". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lancer", "lances", "lancez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lancent, spelled L-A-N-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lancer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de lancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lancent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En juillet 1795, des proches du directeur des Relations extérieures et l’éditeur Böhmer lancent à Paris une campagne pour réclamer l’annexion définitive des pays cisrhénans et organisent un concours.
Des caprices de pin-up, des croqueuses de diamants qui se déhanchent pour le milliardaire du jour, des vedettes américaines en villégiature à Cinecittà qui veulent en montrer aux jeunes Romains, des gigolos qui se lancent dans des kazatchoks pour impressionner la cliente, oui.' — (Clément Ghys, Vadim, le plaisir sans remords, 2017)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alncent
- lacnent
- lanccent
- lancennt
- lancentt
- lancetn
- lancnet
- lanecnt
- lanncent
- llancent
- lnacent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lancent - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).