parcourant
\paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“parcourant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,822
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de parcourir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parcourant · parcourant · French
parcourant · rank #18,822 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,822
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paralysé
Nearest frequency peer: paralysé (-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 « parcourant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pannes
pannes
81,182 corpus weight
- paradoxal
paradoxal
81,181 corpus weight
- paralysé
paralysé
81,180 corpus weight
- parcourant
parcourant
81,179 corpus weight
- parental
parental
81,178 corpus weight
- participera
participera
81,177 corpus weight
What this shows « parcourant » 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 | parcourant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parcourant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around parcourant (IPA \paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,822 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de parcourir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for parcourant, with forms such as "aprcourant", "pacrourant", and "parccourant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "parcourt", "parcourent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parcourant, spelled P-A-R-C-O-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de parcourir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parcourant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et à vrai dire, les lieux communs qui se présentent ici à l’exploration apparaissent également à leur tour comme lieux philosophiques dès qu’on cherche à les définir en les parcourant selon la méthode philosophique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprcourant
- pacrourant
- parccourant
- parcoruant
- parcouarnt
- parcourannt
- parcourantt
- parcouratn
- parcournat
- parcourrant
- parcuorant
- parocurant
- parrcourant
- pparcourant
- pracourant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parcourant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parcourant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).