racontant
\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“racontant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,536
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de raconter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racontant · racontant · French
racontant · rank #17,536 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,536
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quota
Nearest frequency peer: quota (-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 « racontant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- péripéties
péripéties
82,468 corpus weight
- quest
quest
82,467 corpus weight
- quota
quota
82,466 corpus weight
- racontant
racontant
82,465 corpus weight
- raisonnable…
raisonnablement
82,464 corpus weight
- rassemblent
rassemblent
82,463 corpus weight
What this shows « racontant » 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 | racontant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « racontant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around racontant (IPA \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,536 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de raconter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for racontant, with forms such as "arcontant", "raccontant", and "racnotant". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "racontent", "remontant", "rayonnant", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is racontant, spelled R-A-C-O-N-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de raconter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how racontant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je fictionne sur le combat de la vie et de la mort, je témoigne bien (sinon « en bien ») de l’humanité, je ne « divertis » pas, je renvoie à l’essentiel en racontant une histoire qui peut passionner parce qu’elle concerne tout et tous, sous les déguisements symboliques qui peuvent donner l’idée d’un « genre littéraire ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arcontant
- raccontant
- racnotant
- raconatnt
- raconntant
- racontannt
- racontantt
- racontatn
- racontnat
- raconttant
- racotnant
- raocntant
- rcaontant
- rracontant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racontant - 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
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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 (14 here; floor ≥5).