pratiquant
\pʁa.ti.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“pratiquant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,025
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui observe les pratiques de sa religion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pratiquant · pratiquant · French
pratiquant · rank #12,025 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,025
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poumon
Nearest frequency peer: poumon (-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 « pratiquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Polonaise
Polonaise
87,979 corpus weight
- postérité
postérité
87,978 corpus weight
- poumon
poumon
87,977 corpus weight
- pratiquant
pratiquant
87,976 corpus weight
- premium
premium
87,975 corpus weight
- prendront
prendront
87,974 corpus weight
What this shows « pratiquant » 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 | pratiquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁa.ti.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pratiquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around pratiquant (IPA \pʁa.ti.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,025 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pratiquant, with forms such as "partiquant", "ppratiquant", and "praitquant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pratiquent", "pratiquants", "pratiquante", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pratiquant, spelled P-R-A-T-I-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui observe les pratiques de sa religion.
- 2Spécialement, dans le cas du catholicisme, qui va à la messe toutes les semaines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pratiquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais super, super catholique pratiquante : les scouts, les rallyes, les premières communions, les jupes bleu marine, les cols Claudine, les talons plats, les madeleines confectionnées pour les vendre à la kermesse de monsieur le curé.
Si, je suis pratiquant. Si, je vais à la messe, à peu près chaque dimanche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- partiquant
- ppratiquant
- praitquant
- pratiqaunt
- pratiqquant
- pratiquannt
- pratiquantt
- pratiquatn
- pratiqunat
- pratiuqant
- pratqiuant
- prattiquant
- prratiquant
- prtaiquant
- rpatiquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pratiquant - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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