participant
\paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“participant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,352
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui participe à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-participant · participant · French
participant · rank #7,352 · 17 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,352
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partagée
Nearest frequency peer: partagée (-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 « participant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oublions
oublions
92,651 corpus weight
- partagée
partagée
92,650 corpus weight
- participant
participant
92,649 corpus weight
- plancher
plancher
92,648 corpus weight
- posez
posez
92,647 corpus weight
- prisons
prisons
92,646 corpus weight
What this shows « participant » 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 | participant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « participant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around participant (IPA \paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,352 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui participe à quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for participant, with forms such as "aprticipant", "paritcipant", and "parrticipant". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "participent", "participants", "participante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is participant, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui participe à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how participant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après la soirée moules-frites qui a rassemblé près de cent soixante-dix personnes, le foyer rural de Saint-Paul remercie les personnes participantes et s’excuse auprès de ceux qui n’ont pas pu être retenus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprticipant
- paritcipant
- parrticipant
- partciipant
- particcipant
- particiapnt
- participannt
- participantt
- participatn
- participnat
- particippant
- particpiant
- partiicpant
- partticipant
- patricipant
- pparticipant
- praticipant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of participant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "participant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).