pétillant
\pe.ti.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“pétillant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,956
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pétille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petillant · pétillant · French
pétillant · rank #39,956 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pâlir
Nearest frequency peer: pâlir (-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 « pétillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prononcera
prononcera
60,049 corpus weight
- propulseurs
propulseurs
60,048 corpus weight
- prot
prot
60,047 corpus weight
- pâlir
pâlir
60,046 corpus weight
- pétillant
pétillant
60,045 corpus weight
- quechua
quechua
60,044 corpus weight
What this shows « pétillant » 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 | pétillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.ti.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pétillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pétillant (IPA \pe.ti.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,956 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pétillant, with forms such as "petillant", "ppétillant", and "ptéillant". 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, "pétillante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pétillant, spelled P-É-T-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui pétille.
- 2Qui brille avec éclat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En bon Champenois, il célébra le vin de Champagne dans une ode en vers iambiques, dont le style vif et pétillant, présente la belle image de cette charmante liqueur.
Du foyer avivé s’élevaient de belles flammes qui montaient en tourbillons jusqu’au toit, en jetant des étincelles pétillantes qui, seules, troublaient le silence.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- petillant
- ppétillant
- ptéillant
- péitllant
- pétilalnt
- pétilant
- pétillannt
- pétillantt
- pétillatn
- pétillnat
- pétlilant
- péttillant
- éptillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pétillant - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).