survivant

\syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\

/\syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « survivant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

survivant vs survivent
89% similar
survivant vs survolant
78% similar
survivant vs survivants
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for survivant
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvivant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#12,487
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « survivant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).survivantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « superman » (#12,486), « sus » (#12,488), « Stuart » (#12,485). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « survivant » est au #12,487. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui survit à un autre.
  2. 2
    Qui survit à un accident.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how survivant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

sruvivant2ssurvivant1surivvant2surrvivant1surviavnt2survivannt1survivantt1survivatn2
Edit distance from "survivant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "survivant"?
"survivant" is spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\.
What does "survivant" mean?
As an adjective, "survivant" means: Qui survit à un autre.
What words are commonly confused with "survivant"?
"survivant" is commonly confused with "survivent", "survolant", "survivants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "survivant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survivant" is \syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survivant" come from?
"survivant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "survivant", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list