menaçant
\mə.na.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“menaçant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui menace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menacant · menaçant · French
menaçant · rank #10,904 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,904
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maçonnerie
Nearest frequency peer: maçonnerie (-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 « menaçant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manges
manges
89,100 corpus weight
- massifs
massifs
89,099 corpus weight
- maçonnerie
maçonnerie
89,098 corpus weight
- menaçant
menaçant
89,097 corpus weight
- milice
milice
89,096 corpus weight
- millier
millier
89,095 corpus weight
What this shows « menaçant » 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 | menaçant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mə.na.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menaçant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around menaçant (IPA \mə.na.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui menace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for menaçant, with forms such as "emnaçant", "meançant", and "menaaçnt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "menant", "mentant", "menacent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is menaçant, spelled M-E-N-A-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui menace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menaçant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit que tu as poissé nos philippes (filouté nos pièces d’or), reprit le Biffon d’un air menaçant.
Comme ils franchissaient le seuil, des formes invisibles surgirent, brusquement, de l'ombre. C'était les slouguis qui se précipitaient, menaçants. Mᵐᵉ Durelle poussa un cri.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emnaçant
- meançant
- menaaçnt
- menacant
- menaçannt
- menaçantt
- menaçatn
- menaçnat
- mennaçant
- mençaant
- mmenaçant
- mneaçant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menaçant - 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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Same letter count
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