militant
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,785
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
militant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui lutte, qui attaque, qui défend une cause ou une idéologie, qui paie de sa personne. Relatif notamment aux milieux politique et associatif. Pronounced \mi.li.tɑ̃\. It ranks #5,785 in French word frequency. Often confused with militent and military.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | militant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mi.li.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for militant is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.li.tɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,785 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for militant, with forms such as "imlitant", "miiltant", and "miliatnt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "militent", "military", "militari", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is militant, spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imlitant,miiltant,miliatnt,militannt,militantt,militatn,militnat,milittant,millitant,miltiant,mliitant,mmilitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for militant
Misspelling Variants of "militant"
Frequency rank: #5,785 in French
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Nearby French words
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