ouvrant

Name: ouvrant, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\u.vʁɑ̃\

/\u.vʁɑ̃\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“ouvrant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,473
frequency rank, French: 1,642
“O” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une ouverture qui peut s’ouvrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ouvrant · ouvrant · French

ouvrant · rank #7,473 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #7,473
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 1,642
PHOTO-FINISH pardonner

Nearest frequency peer: pardonner (+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.

opportunités

92,531
orage

92,530
ouvrant

92,528
pardonner

92,527
patrice

92,526
pervers

92,525

What this shows « ouvrant » 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).

ouvrant vs ouvrent

86% similar

ouvrant vs ouvrons

71% similar

ouvrant vs ouvrage

71% similar

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

Key facts for ouvrant
Property	Value
Headword	ouvrant
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\u.vʁɑ̃\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#7,473
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	7
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ouvrant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ouvrantse place ici:

#7,473

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pardonner » (#7,474), « orage » (#7,471), « patrice » (#7,475). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « ouvrant » est au #7,473. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around ouvrant (IPA \u.vʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,473 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ouvrant, with forms such as "ourvant", "ouvarnt", and "ouvrannt". 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, "ouvrent", "ouvrons", "ouvrage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ouvrant, spelled O-U-V-R-A-N-T.

Definition

1
Qualifie une ouverture qui peut s’ouvrir.
2
Qui ouvre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Ces palissades étaient munies de barrières ouvrantes.
Si une seconde citation est comprise à l’intérieur de la première, chaque ligne de la citation incluse sera précédée d’un guillemet ouvrant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ourvant
ouvarnt
ouvrannt
ouvrantt
ouvratn
ouvrnat
ouvrrant
ouvvrant
ovurant
uovrant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ouvrant - 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.

Edit distance from "ouvrant"

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 "ouvrant"?

"ouvrant" is spelled O-U-V-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \u.vʁɑ̃\.

What does "ouvrant" mean?

As an adjective, "ouvrant" means: Qualifie une ouverture qui peut s’ouvrir.

What words are commonly confused with "ouvrant"?

"ouvrant" is commonly confused with "ouvrent", "ouvrons", "ouvrage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "ouvrant"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ouvrant" is \u.vʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "ouvrant" come from?

"ouvrant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

patrice#7,475 pervers#7,476 pénible#7,488 Raphaël#7,490

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

occurrence10 variants tantôt10 variants exploit10 variants diocèse10 variants