pleurant

adj

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The verdict

“pleurant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,829
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pleure, pleureur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pleurant · pleurant · French

pleurant · rank #18,829 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,829
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH piètre

Nearest frequency peer: piètre (-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 « pleurant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pleurant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pleurant vs pleurent
88% similar
pleurant vs pleuvait
75% similar
pleurant vs pleuvent
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pleurant
PropertyValue
Headwordpleurant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,829
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pleurant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pleurantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « piètre » (#18,828), « pointent » (#18,830), « pions » (#18,827). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pleurant » est au #18,829. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around pleurant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,829 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui pleure, pleureur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pleurant, with forms such as "lpeurant", "pelurant", and "pleruant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pleurent", "pleuvait", "pleuvent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pleurant, spelled P-L-E-U-R-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui pleure, pleureur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pleurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle est toujours pleurante.
  2. Il regarda avec attendrissement la figure sculptée sur son bâton. — Te voilà, lui dit-il, pauvre Humanité, maigre et pleurante, stupide de honte et de misère, telle que t’ont faite tes maîtres, le soldat et le riche.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpeurant
  • pelurant
  • pleruant
  • pleuarnt
  • pleurannt
  • pleurantt
  • pleuratn
  • pleurnat
  • pleurrant
  • plleurant
  • pluerant
  • ppleurant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pleurant - 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.

lpeurant2pelurant2pleruant2pleuarnt2pleurannt1pleurantt1pleuratn2pleurnat2
Edit distance from "pleurant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleurant"?
"pleurant" is spelled P-L-E-U-R-A-N-T.
What does "pleurant" mean?
As an adjective, "pleurant" means: Qui pleure, pleureur.
What words are commonly confused with "pleurant"?
"pleurant" is commonly confused with "pleurent", "pleuvait", "pleuvent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "pleurant" come from?
"pleurant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pleurant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pointent#18,830parental#18,823produise#18,836paralysé#18,821

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

ressentez12 variantsrestauré12 variantsmandarin12 variantsretirent12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list