respirant
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“respirant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,510
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui respire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respirant · respirant · French
respirant · rank #38,510 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rentraient
Nearest frequency peer: rentraient (-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 « respirant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- related
related
61,494 corpus weight
- Rentier
Rentier
61,493 corpus weight
- rentraient
rentraient
61,492 corpus weight
- respirant
respirant
61,491 corpus weight
- responsabil…
responsabilisation
61,490 corpus weight
- responsabil…
responsabiliser
61,489 corpus weight
What this shows « respirant » 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 | respirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respirant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around respirant (IPA \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,510 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui respire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for respirant, with forms such as "erspirant", "repsirant", and "resiprant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "retirant", "respirent", "résidant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 respirant, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui respire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how respirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miron y voit sa vie comme une «tentative inouïe de dépasser la littérature» pour atteindre «une communion respirante avec le monde, l’humanité et l’Histoire».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspirant
- repsirant
- resiprant
- respiarnt
- respirannt
- respirantt
- respiratn
- respirnat
- respirrant
- resppirant
- respriant
- resspirant
- rrespirant
- rsepirant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respirant - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).