poussant
\pu.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“poussant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussant · poussant · French
poussant · rank #11,639 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,639
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portez
Nearest frequency peer: portez (-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 « poussant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- politesse
politesse
88,365 corpus weight
- polémiques
polémiques
88,364 corpus weight
- portez
portez
88,363 corpus weight
- poussant
poussant
88,362 corpus weight
- pratiquent
pratiquent
88,361 corpus weight
- prioritaire
prioritaire
88,360 corpus weight
What this shows « poussant » 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 | poussant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poussant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around poussant (IPA \pu.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,639 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de pousser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poussant, with forms such as "opussant", "posusant", and "pousant". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvant", "poussin", "puisant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poussant, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poussant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’une poussant l’autre, et chacune avec sa tâche bien chevillée au corps, les années avaient passé sans apporter jamais que des surprises désagréables.
Là, il se mit à se contorsionner, à trémuler et à trembler convulsivement, bavant, écumant et poussant toujours son cri de bête.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opussant
- posusant
- pousant
- pousasnt
- poussannt
- poussantt
- poussatn
- poussnat
- ppoussant
- puossant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poussant - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).