marchant
\maʁ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“marchant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,416
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui marche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marchant · marchant · French
marchant · rank #12,416 · 13 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légèreté
Nearest frequency peer: légèreté (-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 « marchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- logiques
logiques
87,588 corpus weight
- LT
LT
87,587 corpus weight
- légèreté
légèreté
87,586 corpus weight
- marchant
marchant
87,585 corpus weight
- marquent
marquent
87,584 corpus weight
- marquées
marquées
87,583 corpus weight
What this shows « marchant » 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 | marchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around marchant (IPA \maʁ.ʃɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,416 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui marche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for marchant, with forms such as "amrchant", "macrhant", and "marcahnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "marrant", "méchant", "mariant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 marchant, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui marche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au commandement Marche, l’escadron se met en bataille, l’homme de l’aile gauche de chaque peloton servant de pivot et tournant sur lui-même. Le capitaine commande Halte à l’instant où les ailes marchantes sont près de finir leur emboîtement, et de suite À droite = Alignement. À ce dernier commandement, les ailes marchantes achèvent leur emboîtement, et le…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrchant
- macrhant
- marcahnt
- marcchant
- marchannt
- marchantt
- marchatn
- marchhant
- marchnat
- marhcant
- marrchant
- mmarchant
- mrachant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marchant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marchant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).