militants
\mi.li.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“militants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,546
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de militant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-militants · militants · French
militants · rank #3,546 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,546
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milieux
Nearest frequency peer: milieux (-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 « militants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marins
marins
96,458 corpus weight
- matériaux
matériaux
96,457 corpus weight
- milieux
milieux
96,456 corpus weight
- militants
militants
96,455 corpus weight
- modernes
modernes
96,454 corpus weight
- motif
motif
96,453 corpus weight
What this shows « militants » 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 | militants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.li.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « militants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around militants (IPA \mi.li.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,546 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de militant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for militants, with forms such as "imlitants", "miiltants", and "miliatnts". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "militent", "militant", "militante", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is militants, spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de militant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how militants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la société civile, de nouveaux acteurs, issus des grandes universités mais aussi des mouvements militants, commencent à faire bouger les lignes du débat politique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlitants
- miiltants
- miliatnts
- militannts
- militanst
- militantss
- militantts
- militatns
- militnats
- milittants
- millitants
- miltiants
- mliitants
- mmilitants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of militants - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).