séparant
\se.pa.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“séparant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,284
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de séparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-separant · séparant · French
séparant · rank #17,284 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,284
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symétrie
Nearest frequency peer: symétrie (-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 « séparant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sweat
sweat
82,720 corpus weight
- symphonique
symphonique
82,719 corpus weight
- symétrie
symétrie
82,718 corpus weight
- séparant
séparant
82,717 corpus weight
- séquelles
séquelles
82,716 corpus weight
- taxer
taxer
82,714 corpus weight
What this shows « séparant » 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 | séparant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.pa.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séparant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around séparant (IPA \se.pa.ʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,284 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de séparer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for séparant, with forms such as "separant", "spéarant", and "sséparant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "serrant", "séparent", "séparait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is séparant, spelled S-É-P-A-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de séparer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how séparant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En séparant la prise de décision de son exécution, suivant une division taylorienne du management reproduisant le schéma de l’organisation scientifique du travail et de la spécialisation des hommes dans les fonctions, cette logique décisionnelle sociopolitise les rapports techniques de travail (rattachés aux modes d’organisation), instaure au sein de la s…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- separant
- spéarant
- sséparant
- séaprant
- sépaarnt
- séparannt
- séparantt
- séparatn
- séparnat
- séparrant
- sépparant
- sépraant
- ésparant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séparant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).