quittant
\ki.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“quittant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,889
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de quitter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quittant · quittant · French
quittant · rank #13,889 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quimper
Nearest frequency peer: quimper (-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 « quittant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quantique
quantique
86,115 corpus weight
- quatuor
quatuor
86,114 corpus weight
- quimper
quimper
86,113 corpus weight
- quittant
quittant
86,112 corpus weight
- rapportés
rapportés
86,111 corpus weight
- recevait
recevait
86,109 corpus weight
What this shows « quittant » 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 | quittant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ki.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quittant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quittant (IPA \ki.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,889 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de quitter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quittant, with forms such as "qiuttant", "qquittant", and "quitant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "quittent", "quittons", "quitta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quittant, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de quitter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quittant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une journée de solitude glorieuse pour le jeune garçon qui, épuisé mais heureux s’apprêtait à désaccastiller, quand soudain, quittant les véhicules alignés au dessus de la plage déserte, un petit groupe d’hommes se laissa glisser le long du mur de remblai.
Le ferrmier Hourdequin était allé déjeuner à Cloyes, au sortir de la messe, on avait nocé très tard, et les deux garçons arrivaient seulement, ne se quittant plus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuttant
- qquittant
- quitant
- quitatnt
- quittannt
- quittantt
- quittatn
- quittnat
- qutitant
- uqittant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quittant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "quittant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).