surfant
\sœʁ.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“surfant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,071
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de surfer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surfant · surfant · French
surfant · rank #42,071 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,071
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syriaque
Nearest frequency peer: syriaque (+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 « surfant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- starting
starting
57,935 corpus weight
- surfant
surfant
57,930 corpus weight
- syriaque
syriaque
57,929 corpus weight
- sédition
sédition
57,928 corpus weight
- séjournent
séjournent
57,927 corpus weight
- Takashi
Takashi
57,925 corpus weight
What this shows « surfant » 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 | surfant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sœʁ.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surfant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around surfant (IPA \sœʁ.fɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,071 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de surfer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for surfant, with forms such as "srufant", "ssurfant", and "sufrant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sursaut", "suivant", "surface", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surfant, spelled S-U-R-F-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de surfer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surfant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Sergent fut prêt : prenant des conseils auprès de la station piscicole du Service de la pêche, surfant sur Internet et surtout bricolant le dispositif de base pour la reproduction des alevines – une boîte à biscuit métallique (à l’effigie du Pape Jean XXIII), dans laquelle il a inséré une claie en plastique avec des baguettes de verre et percé des trous,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srufant
- ssurfant
- sufrant
- surafnt
- surfannt
- surfantt
- surfatn
- surffant
- surfnat
- surrfant
- usrfant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surfant - 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 "surfant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).