redoutant
\ʁə.du.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“redoutant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,570
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de redouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redoutant · redoutant · French
redoutant · rank #42,570 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,570
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recyclable
Nearest frequency peer: recyclable (-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 « redoutant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recoupe
recoupe
57,434 corpus weight
- rectificatif
rectificatif
57,433 corpus weight
- recyclable
recyclable
57,432 corpus weight
- redoutant
redoutant
57,431 corpus weight
- redskins
redskins
57,430 corpus weight
- refusèrent
refusèrent
57,429 corpus weight
What this shows « redoutant » 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 | redoutant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.du.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « redoutant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around redoutant (IPA \ʁə.du.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for redoutant, with forms such as "erdoutant", "rdeoutant", and "reddoutant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "remontant", "redoutent", "révoltant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 redoutant, spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de redouter.
- 2Redoutant que les complices du grand Paul, et surtout le gros chauffeur, ne signalassent à la police son domicile d’Auteuil, il établit son quartier général chez un ami qui habitait l’île Saint-Louis et qui tenait toujours à sa disposition la moitié de son appartement. — (Maurice Leblanc, La Femme aux deux sourires’', chapitre 17)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erdoutant
- rdeoutant
- reddoutant
- redotuant
- redouatnt
- redoutannt
- redoutantt
- redoutatn
- redoutnat
- redouttant
- reduotant
- reodutant
- rredoutant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of redoutant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).