tardent
\taʁd\
The verdict
“tardent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,617. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,617
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardent · tardent · French
tardent · rank #32,617 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,617
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taudis
Nearest frequency peer: taudis (+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 « tardent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séparait
séparait
67,387 corpus weight
- séquestre
séquestre
67,386 corpus weight
- tardent
tardent
67,384 corpus weight
- taudis
taudis
67,383 corpus weight
- tchat
tchat
67,382 corpus weight
- Tigers
Tigers
67,381 corpus weight
What this shows « tardent » 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 | tardent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \taʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tardent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tardent (IPA \taʁd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,617 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tardent, with forms such as "atrdent", "tadrent", and "tarddent". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Trent", "tirent", "tarder", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tardent, spelled T-A-R-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tarder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tarder.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrdent
- tadrent
- tarddent
- tardennt
- tardentt
- tardetn
- tardnet
- tarednt
- tarrdent
- tradent
- ttardent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tardent - 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 "tardent", 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).