militants

\mi.li.tɑ̃\

/\mi.li.tɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « militants » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

militants vs militent
78% similar
militants vs militant
89% similar
militants vs militante
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for militants
PropertyValue
Headwordmilitants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mi.li.tɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,546
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « militants »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).militantsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « milieux » (#3,545), « modernes » (#3,547), « matériaux » (#3,544). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « militants » est au #3,546. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de militant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how militants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

imlitants2miiltants2miliatnts2militannts1militanst2militantss1militantts1militatns2
Edit distance from "militants"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "militants"?
"militants" is spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.li.tɑ̃\.
What does "militants" mean?
As an adjective, "militants" means: Masculin pluriel de militant.
What words are commonly confused with "militants"?
"militants" is commonly confused with "militent", "militant", "militante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "militants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "militants" is \mi.li.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "militants" come from?
"militants" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "militants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list