masquent
\mask\
The verdict
“masquent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,659
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de masquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masquent · masquent · French
masquent · rank #48,659 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matapédia
Nearest frequency peer: Matapédia (+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 « masquent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manor
manor
51,345 corpus weight
- masquent
masquent
51,342 corpus weight
- Matapédia
Matapédia
51,341 corpus weight
- matérialisé
matérialisé
51,340 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
51,339 corpus weight
- mensualité
mensualité
51,338 corpus weight
What this shows « masquent » 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 | masquent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mask\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masquent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around masquent (IPA \mask\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,659 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for masquent, with forms such as "amsquent", "maqsuent", and "masqeunt". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "masquer", "moquent", "masqués", 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 masquent, spelled M-A-S-Q-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de masquer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de masquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how masquent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À de rares exceptions près, à Paris, les hommes ne se masquent point : un homme en domino paraît ridicule.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsquent
- maqsuent
- masqeunt
- masqquent
- masquennt
- masquentt
- masquetn
- masqunet
- massquent
- masuqent
- mmasquent
- msaquent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masquent - 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 "masquent", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).