satisfaisant
\sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“satisfaisant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,254. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,254
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contente, qui satisfait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satisfaisant · satisfaisant · French
satisfaisant · rank #12,254 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,254
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH santos
Nearest frequency peer: santos (-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 « satisfaisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Saguenay
Saguenay
87,750 corpus weight
- Sahara
Sahara
87,749 corpus weight
- santos
santos
87,748 corpus weight
- satisfaisant
satisfaisant
87,747 corpus weight
- scanner
scanner
87,746 corpus weight
- Sharon
Sharon
87,745 corpus weight
What this shows « satisfaisant » 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 | satisfaisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « satisfaisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around satisfaisant (IPA \sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,254 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui contente, qui satisfait.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for satisfaisant, with forms such as "astisfaisant", "saitsfaisant", and "satifsaisant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "satisfaisante", "satisfaisants", "satisfaisantes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is satisfaisant, spelled S-A-T-I-S-F-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui contente, qui satisfait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satisfaisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce discours n’est guère satisfaisant.
Des raisons satisfaisantes.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- astisfaisant
- saitsfaisant
- satifsaisant
- satisafisant
- satisfaiasnt
- satisfaisannt
- satisfaisantt
- satisfaisatn
- satisfaisnat
- satisfaissant
- satisfasiant
- satisffaisant
- satisfiasant
- satissfaisant
- satsifaisant
- sattisfaisant
- ssatisfaisant
- staisfaisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of satisfaisant - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "satisfaisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).