lavant
\la.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“lavant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,865
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui lave, en parlant d’un produit d’hygiène corporelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavant · lavant · French
lavant · rank #41,865 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,865
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavis
Nearest frequency peer: lavis (+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 « lavant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lais
lais
58,139 corpus weight
- Laponie
Laponie
58,138 corpus weight
- lavant
lavant
58,136 corpus weight
- lavis
lavis
58,135 corpus weight
- lebon
lebon
58,134 corpus weight
- ler
ler
58,133 corpus weight
What this shows « lavant » 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 | lavant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lavant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lavant (IPA \la.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,865 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui lave, en parlant d’un produit d’hygiène corporelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lavant, with forms such as "alvant", "laavnt", and "lavannt". 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, "liant", "lisant", "levant", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lavant, spelled L-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui lave, en parlant d’un produit d’hygiène corporelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lavant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bonne définition du marché du savon Palmolive est « le marché des produits lavants». Ce marché inclut les savons, les gels douches, les pains dermatologiques.
Dans un esprit slow, adoptez de préférence une base lavante neutre certifiée bio et adaptée tant au corps qu’aux cheveux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alvant
- laavnt
- lavannt
- lavantt
- lavatn
- lavnat
- lavvant
- llavant
- lvaant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lavant - 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.
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).