visant
\vi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“visant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,427. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,427
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe viser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-visant · visant · French
visant · rank #3,427 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,427
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH villages
Nearest frequency peer: villages (-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 « visant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- travaillent
travaillent
96,577 corpus weight
- utilisent
utilisent
96,576 corpus weight
- villages
villages
96,575 corpus weight
- visant
visant
96,574 corpus weight
- voulons
voulons
96,573 corpus weight
- élevée
élevée
96,572 corpus weight
What this shows « visant » 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 | visant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « visant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around visant (IPA \vi.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,427 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe viser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for visant, with forms such as "ivsant", "viasnt", and "visannt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "visas", "vison", "visit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 visant, spelled V-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe viser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how visant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vigilances des risques sanitaires sont des dispositifs réglementaires visant le repérage d’événements indésirables ou de dysfonctionnements du système de santé.
On ne peut pas nier l’évidence, à savoir que la situation subordonnée des femmes dans le système universitaire et scientifique les motive plus que les hommes à débiaiser les sciences humaines et à en montrer la dépendance vis-à-vis de postulats visant à rendre invisible l’oppression des femmes ou à la justifier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivsant
- viasnt
- visannt
- visantt
- visatn
- visnat
- vissant
- vsiant
- vvisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of visant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "visant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).