choquantvschoquanteWhat's the difference?

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“choquant” and “choquante” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#11,928
“choquant” frequency rank
#25,589
“choquante” frequency rank
37517
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature choquant choquante
Definition Qui offense, qui déplaît par son immoralité ou son inconvenance. Féminin singulier de choquant.

Letter map: choquant vs choquante

Shared letters muted; letters that set choquant and choquante apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. choquant runs 8 letters (CCVCVVCC) against choquante's 9 (CCVCVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
choquant
9 ch
choquante

Corpus notes: choquant and choquante

choquant and choquante are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “choquant” sits inside “choquante”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37517, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

choquant is recorded at frequency rank #11,928, classified as anadj. choquante is at rank #25,589, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃɔ.kɑ̃t\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 37517, this pair ranks #261,946 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of choquant vs choquante

Shared letters: achnoqtu. Private to "choquant": -. Private to "choquante": e.

"choquant" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVVCC  ·  "choquante" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • choquant ← cchoquant · chhoquant · choqaunt · choqquant · choquannt · choquantt · choquatn · choqunat
  • choquante ← cchoquante · chhoquante · choqaunte · choqquante · choquanet · choquannte · choquantte · choquatne

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "choquant" and "choquante" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “choquant” sits inside “choquante”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "choquant" or "choquante"?
"choquant" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,928 in our French list, against #25,589 for "choquante". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "choquant" and "choquante". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "choquant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "choquante" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #261,946 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "choquant" and "choquante" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "choquante vs choquent". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #261,946 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list