posant
\po.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“posant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,449
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de poser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posant · posant · French
posant · rank #12,449 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,449
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polytechnique
Nearest frequency peer: polytechnique (-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 « posant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plâtre
plâtre
87,556 corpus weight
- pol
pol
87,555 corpus weight
- pole
pole
87,554 corpus weight
- polytechniq…
polytechnique
87,553 corpus weight
- posant
posant
87,552 corpus weight
- poursuivant
poursuivant
87,551 corpus weight
What this shows « posant » 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 | posant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « posant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around posant (IPA \po.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,449 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de poser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for posant, with forms such as "opsant", "poasnt", and "posannt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Post", "puant", "posent", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is posant, spelled P-O-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de poser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how posant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il disait ses poèmes étranges et doux, les bêtes approchaient pour mieux l’entendre, les lézards et les chiens, et les pigeons posant sur son épaule un vol rejoint, songeant peut-être à le défendre ; les hirondelles, ces oiseaux qui, pour mieux relier l’homme et le ciel, nichent sous les génoises des toitures, les chèvres qui débroutent les haies, b…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsant
- poasnt
- posannt
- posantt
- posatn
- posnat
- possant
- pposant
- psoant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of posant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).