militant
\mi.li.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“militant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,785
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui lutte, qui attaque, qui défend une cause ou une idéologie, qui paie de sa personne. Relatif notamment aux milieux politique et associatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-militant · militant · French
militant · rank #5,785 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,785
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maths
Nearest frequency peer: maths (-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 « militant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manifester
manifester
94,219 corpus weight
- manquait
manquait
94,218 corpus weight
- maths
maths
94,217 corpus weight
- militant
militant
94,216 corpus weight
- monstres
monstres
94,215 corpus weight
- monétaire
monétaire
94,214 corpus weight
What this shows « militant » 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 | militant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.li.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « militant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around militant (IPA \mi.li.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,785 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for militant, with forms such as "imlitant", "miiltant", and "miliatnt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "militent", "military", "militari", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is militant, spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui lutte, qui attaque, qui défend une cause ou une idéologie, qui paie de sa personne. Relatif notamment aux milieux politique et associatif.
- 2Relatif au militantisme.
- 3Qualifie, dans l’Église, l’assemblée des fidèles sur la terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how militant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout cela ne ravive pas l’espérance ; on sent que l’on manque d’armes et de direction. On sent aussi que l’élément sédentaire, celui qui produit et ménage pour l’élément militant, est abandonné au hasard des circonstances.
Affichant non sans panache un athéisme militant, il appelle à en finir avec une certaine tolérance envers les religions monothéistes, intrinsèquement intolérantes et pétries de haine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlitant
- miiltant
- miliatnt
- militannt
- militantt
- militatn
- militnat
- milittant
- millitant
- miltiant
- mliitant
- mmilitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of militant - 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
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Same letter count
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