stimulant
\sti.my.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“stimulant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,828
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui excite, qui aiguillonne l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stimulant · stimulant · French
stimulant · rank #17,828 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,828
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH still
Nearest frequency peer: still (-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 « stimulant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- split
split
82,176 corpus weight
- step
step
82,175 corpus weight
- still
still
82,174 corpus weight
- stimulant
stimulant
82,173 corpus weight
- studies
studies
82,172 corpus weight
- subsistent
subsistent
82,171 corpus weight
What this shows « stimulant » 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 | stimulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sti.my.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stimulant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around stimulant (IPA \sti.my.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,828 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for stimulant, with forms such as "sitmulant", "sstimulant", and "stimluant". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "stipulant", "stimulent", "stimulants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stimulant, spelled S-T-I-M-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui excite, qui aiguillonne l’esprit.
- 2Ce qui est propre à exciter les fonctions organiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stimulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’émulation est un stimulant qu’il faut employer à propos et avec précaution.
Il est assez porté à agir de la sorte, il n’a pas besoin de stimulants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitmulant
- sstimulant
- stimluant
- stimmulant
- stimualnt
- stimulannt
- stimulantt
- stimulatn
- stimullant
- stimulnat
- stiumlant
- stmiulant
- sttimulant
- tsimulant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stimulant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "stimulant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).