prétendant
\pʁe.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“prétendant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prétend, qui aspire à une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretendant · prétendant · French
prétendant · rank #10,927 · 17 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,927
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH questionnaire
Nearest frequency peer: questionnaire (+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 « prétendant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaignent
plaignent
89,078 corpus weight
- Poitou
Poitou
89,077 corpus weight
- prétendant
prétendant
89,074 corpus weight
- questionnai…
questionnaire
89,073 corpus weight
- recevez
recevez
89,072 corpus weight
- recruté
recruté
89,071 corpus weight
What this shows « prétendant » 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 | prétendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prétendant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prétendant (IPA \pʁe.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prétendant, with forms such as "pprétendant", "pretendant", and "prrétendant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prévenant", "prétendent", "prétextant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prétendant, spelled P-R-É-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prétend, qui aspire à une chose.
- 2Prince qui prétend à un trône.
- 3Celui qui aspire à la main de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prétendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a plusieurs prétendants à cette place, à cet emploi.
Les troupes hafidistes infligent une défaite sanglante au sultan, qui est obligé de se sauver à Rabat. Les hafidistes en profitent pour faire proclamer le prétendant à Tanger. Les ministres étrangers semblent s'incliner devant le fait accompli.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprétendant
- pretendant
- prrétendant
- prtéendant
- préetndant
- prétednant
- prétenadnt
- prétendannt
- prétendantt
- prétendatn
- prétenddant
- prétendnat
- prétenndant
- prétnedant
- préttendant
- pértendant
- rpétendant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prétendant - 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 "prétendant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).