survivant
\syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“survivant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,487
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui survit à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survivant · survivant · French
survivant · rank #12,487 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,487
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superman
Nearest frequency peer: superman (-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 « survivant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- steak
steak
87,517 corpus weight
- Stuart
Stuart
87,516 corpus weight
- superman
superman
87,515 corpus weight
- survivant
survivant
87,514 corpus weight
- sus
sus
87,513 corpus weight
- séjours
séjours
87,512 corpus weight
What this shows « survivant » 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 | survivant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « survivant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around survivant (IPA \syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,487 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 survivant, with forms such as "sruvivant", "ssurvivant", and "surivvant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "survivent", "survolant", "survivants", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is survivant, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui survit à un autre.
- 2Qui survit à un accident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how survivant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque le conjoint survivant recueille la totalité ou les trois quarts des biens, les ascendants du défunt, autres que les père et mère, qui sont dans le besoin bénéficient d'une créance d'aliments contre la succession du prédécédé.
Nous nous réunîmes une dernière fois, mes quelques hommes survivants et moi, et décidâmes de tenter notre chance suivant la règle du « chacun pour soi ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruvivant
- ssurvivant
- surivvant
- surrvivant
- surviavnt
- survivannt
- survivantt
- survivatn
- survivnat
- survivvant
- survviant
- survvivant
- suvrivant
- usrvivant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of survivant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).