regardant
\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“regardant” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,369 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,369
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.
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 | regardant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “regardant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for regardant is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,369 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe.
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.
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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Using “regardant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-G-A-R-D-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “regardent” - see the side-by-side comparison. regardant vs regardent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.