Spelling
Consistant or consistent?
Consistent is the right spelling. Consistant is a common misspelling of it.
CONSISTANT has A where CONSISTENT has E.
Why people write CONSISTANT
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Consist + ent: it ends in -ENT, like persistent.
How often CONSISTENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), CONSISTANT appears 9 times for every 1,000 CONSISTENT, about once for every 111 correct uses.
Is CONSISTANT a word?
No. CONSISTANT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. CONSISTENT is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What consistent means
In agreement or consistent or reliable.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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