mentent
\mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“mentent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,734. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,734
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentent · mentent · French
mentent · rank #14,734 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,734
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH med
Nearest frequency peer: med (-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 « mentent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- matos
matos
85,270 corpus weight
- matérielles
matérielles
85,269 corpus weight
- med
med
85,268 corpus weight
- mentent
mentent
85,267 corpus weight
- mercenaires
mercenaires
85,266 corpus weight
- meurtrière
meurtrière
85,265 corpus weight
What this shows « mentent » 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 | mentent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mentent (IPA \mɑ̃t\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,734 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentent, with forms such as "emntent", "menetnt", and "menntent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "menton", "mentez", "montant", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mentent, spelled M-E-N-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mentir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mentent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redevenu artiste in partibus, il avait beaucoup de succès dans les salons, il était consulté par beaucoup d’amateurs ; enfin il passa critique, comme tous les impuissants qui mentent à leurs débuts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntent
- menetnt
- menntent
- mentennt
- mententt
- mentetn
- mentnet
- menttent
- metnent
- mmentent
- mnetent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentent - 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 "mentent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).