suppléant
\sy.ple.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“suppléant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,077
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui supplée, qui remplace quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suppleant · suppléant · French
suppléant · rank #18,077 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,077
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sullivan
Nearest frequency peer: Sullivan (-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 « suppléant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subjective
subjective
81,927 corpus weight
- subtilité
subtilité
81,926 corpus weight
- Sullivan
Sullivan
81,925 corpus weight
- suppléant
suppléant
81,924 corpus weight
- supprimant
supprimant
81,923 corpus weight
- systémique
systémique
81,922 corpus weight
What this shows « suppléant » 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 | suppléant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.ple.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suppléant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around suppléant (IPA \sy.ple.ɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,077 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui supplée, qui remplace quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for suppléant, with forms such as "spupléant", "ssuppléant", and "suplpéant". 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, "supposant", "suppliant", "suppléants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is suppléant, spelled S-U-P-P-L-É-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui supplée, qui remplace quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suppléant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juge suppléant.
Professeur suppléant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spupléant
- ssuppléant
- suplpéant
- supléant
- supplaént
- suppleant
- supplléant
- suppléannt
- suppléantt
- suppléatn
- supplénat
- suppélant
- usppléant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suppléant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suppléant", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).