recherchant
\ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“recherchant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,501
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de rechercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recherchant · recherchant · French
recherchant · rank #26,501 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,501
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rations
Nearest frequency peer: rations (-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 « recherchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radioactif
radioactif
73,503 corpus weight
- rationnels
rationnels
73,502 corpus weight
- rations
rations
73,501 corpus weight
- recherchant
recherchant
73,500 corpus weight
- reconnaissa…
reconnaissants
73,499 corpus weight
- recouvrant
recouvrant
73,498 corpus weight
What this shows « recherchant » 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 | recherchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recherchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around recherchant (IPA \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,501 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de rechercher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for recherchant, with forms such as "ercherchant", "rceherchant", and "reccherchant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "recherchent", "recherchons", "recherchait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is recherchant, spelled R-E-C-H-E-R-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de rechercher.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercherchant
- rceherchant
- reccherchant
- recehrchant
- rechecrhant
- rechercahnt
- rechercchant
- recherchannt
- recherchantt
- recherchatn
- recherchhant
- recherchnat
- recherhcant
- recherrchant
- rechherchant
- rechrechant
- rehcerchant
- rrecherchant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recherchant - 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 "recherchant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).