postant
\pɔs.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“postant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,680
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de poster.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postant · postant · French
postant · rank #34,680 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,680
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poursuivants
Nearest frequency peer: poursuivants (+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 « postant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pommiers
pommiers
65,324 corpus weight
- pompeux
pompeux
65,323 corpus weight
- postant
postant
65,321 corpus weight
- poursuivants
poursuivants
65,320 corpus weight
- prat
prat
65,319 corpus weight
- preneurs
preneurs
65,318 corpus weight
What this shows « postant » 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 | postant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔs.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around postant (IPA \pɔs.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,680 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de poster.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for postant, with forms such as "opstant", "posatnt", and "posstant". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvant", "postent", "postaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is postant, spelled P-O-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de poster.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstant
- posatnt
- posstant
- postannt
- postantt
- postatn
- postnat
- posttant
- potsant
- ppostant
- psotant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postant - 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 "postant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).