palpitant
\pal.pi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“palpitant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,944
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui palpite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palpitant · palpitant · French
palpitant · rank #32,944 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,944
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH orques
Nearest frequency peer: orques (-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 « palpitant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- originellem…
originellement
67,059 corpus weight
- orques
orques
67,058 corpus weight
- palpitant
palpitant
67,057 corpus weight
- parapluies
parapluies
67,056 corpus weight
- parfumée
parfumée
67,055 corpus weight
- parrainé
parrainé
67,054 corpus weight
What this shows « palpitant » 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 | palpitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pal.pi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palpitant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around palpitant (IPA \pal.pi.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,944 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for palpitant, with forms such as "aplpitant", "paliptant", and "pallpitant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "palpitante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is palpitant, spelled P-A-L-P-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui palpite.
- 2Qui est sujet à des palpitations.
- 3Qui est passionnant ; qui provoque un vif intérêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palpitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les entrailles du cerf étaient encore toutes palpitantes. — Des membres palpitants'
Marguerite, comme nous l’avons dit, avait refermé sa porte et était rentrée dans sa chambre. Mais comme elle y entrait, toute palpitante, elle aperçut Gillonne, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplpitant
- paliptant
- pallpitant
- palpiatnt
- palpitannt
- palpitantt
- palpitatn
- palpitnat
- palpittant
- palppitant
- palptiant
- paplitant
- plapitant
- ppalpitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palpitant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).