postulant
\pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“postulant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,962
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui sollicite, qui fait des démarches pour obtenir quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postulant · postulant · French
postulant · rank #46,962 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,962
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polyvalents
Nearest frequency peer: polyvalents (-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 « postulant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pluto
Pluto
53,043 corpus weight
- Polaris
Polaris
53,042 corpus weight
- pollinisate…
pollinisateurs
53,041 corpus weight
- polyvalents
polyvalents
53,040 corpus weight
- postulant
postulant
53,039 corpus weight
- poursuivront
poursuivront
53,037 corpus weight
What this shows « postulant » 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 | postulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postulant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around postulant (IPA \pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,962 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for postulant, with forms such as "opstulant", "posstulant", and "postluant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "postulat", "postulats", "postulants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is postulant, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui sollicite, qui fait des démarches pour obtenir quelque chose.
- 2Celui qui demande à faire son noviciat dans une maison religieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans parler des postulants plus « politiques », comme l’auteur des Versets sataniques, menacé de mort, Salman Rushdie, ou la dissidente russe exilée à Berlin, Ludmila Oulitskaïa.
Cela étant précisé, il reste que, pendant ces vingt années, les organismes tentent de freiner l'entrée des ménages les plus démunis en instituant, d'une part un plancher de revenus en dessous duquel le postulant ne voit pas sa candidature pour un logement retenue, et d'autre part des obligations de créances, de garanties ou de cautions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstulant
- posstulant
- postluant
- posttulant
- postualnt
- postulannt
- postulantt
- postulatn
- postullant
- postulnat
- posutlant
- potsulant
- ppostulant
- psotulant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postulant - 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.
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 "postulant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).