masquant
\mas.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“masquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,212
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui masque, soustrait à la vue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masquant · masquant · French
masquant · rank #49,212 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,212
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matheson
Nearest frequency peer: Matheson (+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 « masquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Marcoussis
Marcoussis
50,793 corpus weight
- marengo
marengo
50,792 corpus weight
- mariera
mariera
50,791 corpus weight
- masquant
masquant
50,789 corpus weight
- Matheson
Matheson
50,788 corpus weight
- Maurepas
Maurepas
50,787 corpus weight
What this shows « masquant » 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 | masquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mas.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around masquant (IPA \mas.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,212 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for masquant, with forms such as "amsquant", "maqsuant", and "masqaunt". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "moquant", "masquent", "manquent", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is masquant, spelled M-A-S-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui masque, soustrait à la vue.
- 2Qui masque la présence d’une substance dopante dans l’organisme.
- 3Qualifie un son qui empêche ou diminue la perception d’un ou plusieurs autres sons de fréquence voisine.
- 4Qui masque une odeur déplaisante ou suspecte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how masquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s'agira le plus souvent de raviver d’anciens remparts déformés ; si les murailles en sont découvertes, on les dérobera, autant qu’il sera possible, à l’action de l’artillerie ennemie, par des masses terrassées et masquantes, qu’on fera sortir de l’approfondissement des fossés.
Et derrière eux l’Escaut poussait son flux vermeil, Par au delà des prés et des digues masquantes, Et les bateaux cinglaient, toutes voiles claquantes Leur proue et leurs sabords souffletés de soleil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsquant
- maqsuant
- masqaunt
- masqquant
- masquannt
- masquantt
- masquatn
- masqunat
- massquant
- masuqant
- mmasquant
- msaquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masquant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).