puissante
\pɥi.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“puissante” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,608
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de puissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puissante · puissante · French
puissante · rank #4,608 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,608
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préserver
Nearest frequency peer: préserver (-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 « puissante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- propagande
propagande
95,396 corpus weight
- préserver
préserver
95,394 corpus weight
- puissante
puissante
95,393 corpus weight
- quai
quai
95,392 corpus weight
- quotidienne
quotidienne
95,391 corpus weight
- raciste
raciste
95,390 corpus weight
What this shows « puissante » 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 | puissante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɥi.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puissante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around puissante (IPA \pɥi.sɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,608 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de puissant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for puissante, with forms such as "piussante", "ppuissante", and "puisante". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "puissent", "puissants", "puissantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is puissante, spelled P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de puissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puissante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La biographie du macroniste fait toutefois douter : ancien consultant d’Euro RSCG, la puissante agence de communication de Stéphane Fouks devenue Havas Worldwide, Ismaël Emelien est très lié à son directeur des études, Gilles Finchelstein, avec lequel il a cofondé une société baptisée « Fink ».
Des soudacs et des esturgeons tout argentés battaient l’eau de leur queue puissante et effrayaient les sterlets et les ombres-chevaliers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piussante
- ppuissante
- puisante
- puisasnte
- puissanet
- puissannte
- puissantte
- puissatne
- puissnate
- pusisante
- upissante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puissante - 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 "puissante", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).