tordant
\tɔʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“tordant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,074
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très drôle, très amusant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tordant · tordant · French
tordant · rank #47,074 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,074
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tivoli
Nearest frequency peer: Tivoli (-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 « tordant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tiercé
tiercé
52,930 corpus weight
- titrés
titrés
52,929 corpus weight
- Tivoli
Tivoli
52,928 corpus weight
- tordant
tordant
52,927 corpus weight
- torrentiell…
torrentielles
52,926 corpus weight
- touchants
touchants
52,925 corpus weight
What this shows « tordant » 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 | tordant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tordant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tordant (IPA \tɔʁ.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,074 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Très drôle, très amusant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tordant, with forms such as "otrdant", "todrant", and "toradnt". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "torrent", "tournant", "tirant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tordant, spelled T-O-R-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Très drôle, très amusant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tordant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut voir avec quelle rudesse elle traite sa plus jeune sœur, Marie. Celle-ci, qui est la résignation personnifiée, n'ose même pas protester. Parce qu'elle n'a que trente-cinq ans, Telcide la considère comme une petite fille. C'est tordant !
Il me raconte, en étouffant de rire, qu’il a surpris Armand, tout à l’heure, en train de dessiner ses bonshommes. – Tu tu n’as rien dit ? – Si, je lui ai dit : « Ils sont tordants », et après, avec mon crayon noir, j’en ai fait un aussi, un beau !
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrdant
- todrant
- toradnt
- tordannt
- tordantt
- tordatn
- torddant
- tordnat
- torrdant
- trodant
- ttordant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tordant - 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 "tordant", 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).