plantant
\plɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“plantant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,719
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de planter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plantant · plantant · French
plantant · rank #48,719 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquants
Nearest frequency peer: piquants (-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 « plantant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- philosopher
philosopher
51,285 corpus weight
- pickup
pickup
51,284 corpus weight
- piquants
piquants
51,283 corpus weight
- plantant
plantant
51,282 corpus weight
- PMR
PMR
51,281 corpus weight
- pollueurs
pollueurs
51,279 corpus weight
What this shows « plantant » 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 | plantant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plantant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around plantant (IPA \plɑ̃.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,719 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de planter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plantant, with forms such as "lpantant", "palntant", and "planatnt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "platane", "pointant", "plantent", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is plantant, spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de planter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plantant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’interpellé déglutit, reglutit, désestomaque et finit par bredouiller en me plantant un regard de 240 volts dans les vasistas : — Mais naturellement…
On n’était plus, comme à Orléans, en état de « muguetter » la ville de Paris, en se plantant au bord de la mer, dans des îles, parmi un peuple de trafiquans, on s’isolait un peu trop du reste de la nation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpantant
- palntant
- planatnt
- planntant
- plantannt
- plantantt
- plantatn
- plantnat
- planttant
- platnant
- pllantant
- plnatant
- pplantant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plantant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).