répondants
\ʁe.pɔ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“répondants” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,168
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de répondant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repondants · répondants · French
répondants · rank #26,168 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,168
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH régissent
Nearest frequency peer: régissent (-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 « répondants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réfractaire
réfractaire
73,836 corpus weight
- référent
référent
73,835 corpus weight
- régissent
régissent
73,834 corpus weight
- répondants
répondants
73,833 corpus weight
- réunionnais
réunionnais
73,832 corpus weight
- S2
S2
73,830 corpus weight
What this shows « répondants » 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 | répondants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.pɔ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « répondants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around répondants (IPA \ʁe.pɔ̃.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,168 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de répondant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for répondants, with forms such as "repondants", "rpéondants", and "rrépondants". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "répondent", "répondons", "répondant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is répondants, spelled R-É-P-O-N-D-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de répondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how répondants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2018, près de 22 % des répondants de l’enquête EROPP de l’Observatoire français des drogues et des tendances addictives citaient spontanément le tabac comme une drogue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- repondants
- rpéondants
- rrépondants
- réopndants
- répnodants
- répodnants
- réponadnts
- répondannts
- répondanst
- répondantss
- répondantts
- répondatns
- réponddants
- répondnats
- réponndants
- réppondants
- érpondants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of répondants - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).