performant
\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“performant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,227
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capable de performance, compétitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-performant · performant · French
performant · rank #13,227 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,227
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parcelle
Nearest frequency peer: parcelle (-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 « performant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- originel
originel
86,777 corpus weight
- other
other
86,776 corpus weight
- parcelle
parcelle
86,775 corpus weight
- performant
performant
86,774 corpus weight
- perpétuité
perpétuité
86,773 corpus weight
- pieux
pieux
86,772 corpus weight
What this shows « performant » 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 | performant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « performant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around performant (IPA \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,227 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for performant, with forms such as "eprformant", "pefrormant", and "perfformant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "performants", "performante", "performantes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is performant, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Capable de performance, compétitif.
- 2Qui fonctionne bien, productif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how performant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nils Guyon, très performant en Catalogne comme lors de tous les tournois estivaux de 2021, est encore de la fête.
On a une voiture plus performante, de six ou sept dixièmes au tout, mais les stratèges ont fait n’importe quoi en faisant rentrer Leclerc pour lui mettre des gommes dures, pas du tout performantes, se désole le twitto.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprformant
- pefrormant
- perfformant
- perfomrant
- perforamnt
- performannt
- performantt
- performatn
- performmant
- performnat
- perforrmant
- perfromant
- perofrmant
- perrformant
- pperformant
- preformant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of performant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "performant", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).