How to spell nonchalant
nonchalant
Not nonchalent.
The trap
The word nonchalant ends -ant, and the misspelling nonchalent writes the ending as -ent. The unstressed ending gives no clue to its vowel, and nonchalance keeps the same A.
-ant and -ent are the same sound when the syllable is unstressed. Which one a word takes is usually learned with the word, and its -ance or -ence relative keeps the same vowel (confident, confidence).
What it means
Feeling casually calm.
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