méritants
\me.ʁi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“méritants” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,478
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de méritant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meritants · méritants · French
méritants · rank #42,478 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,478
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métaboliques
Nearest frequency peer: métaboliques (+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 « méritants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- muter
muter
57,526 corpus weight
- myrtille
myrtille
57,525 corpus weight
- méritants
méritants
57,523 corpus weight
- métaboliques
métaboliques
57,522 corpus weight
- napoléonien…
napoléonienne
57,521 corpus weight
- narine
narine
57,520 corpus weight
What this shows « méritants » 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 | méritants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ʁi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méritants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around méritants (IPA \me.ʁi.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,478 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de méritant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for méritants, with forms such as "meritants", "mméritants", and "mréitants". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "méritent", "méritons", "militants", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is méritants, spelled M-É-R-I-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de méritant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meritants
- mméritants
- mréitants
- méirtants
- mériatnts
- méritannts
- méritanst
- méritantss
- méritantts
- méritatns
- méritnats
- mérittants
- mérritants
- mértiants
- émritants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méritants - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).