regardant

\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\

/\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“regardant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,369. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,369
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-regardant · regardant · French

regardant · rank #4,369 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,369
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recul

Nearest frequency peer: recul (-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 « regardant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « regardant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

regardant vs regardent
89% similar
regardant vs regardons
78% similar
regardant vs regarda
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for regardant
PropertyValue
Headwordregardant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,369
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « regardant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).regardantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « recul » (#4,368), « remet » (#4,370), « publications » (#4,367). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « regardant » est au #4,369. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around regardant (IPA \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,369 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for regardant, with forms such as "ergardant", "reagrdant", and "regadrant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "regardent", "regardons", "regarda", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented 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 regardant, spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how regardant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Blanche, à Albert.– Pensez-vous que quarante-deux francs… ? Albert.– Oh ! allez ! allez ! La compagnie La Méfiance n’est pas regardante.
  2. — Elle dit, comme ça, qu’y faut pas être regardant, quand on est riche.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ergardant
  • reagrdant
  • regadrant
  • regaradnt
  • regardannt
  • regardantt
  • regardatn
  • regarddant
  • regardnat
  • regarrdant
  • reggardant
  • regradant
  • rgeardant
  • rregardant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regardant - 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.

ergardant2reagrdant2regadrant2regaradnt2regardannt1regardantt1regardatn2regarddant1
Edit distance from "regardant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "regardant"?
"regardant" is spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\.
What does "regardant" mean?
As an adjective, "regardant" means: Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.
What words are commonly confused with "regardant"?
"regardant" is commonly confused with "regardent", "regardons", "regarda". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "regardant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "regardant" is \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "regardant" come from?
"regardant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "regardant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

provoquer#4,366promesses#4,365satisfait#4,375pollution#4,361

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

merveilleux14 variantsinférieure14 variantsdéfenseur14 variantscompromis14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list