achetais
\a.ʃə.tɛ\
The verdict
“achetais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,624. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,624
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achetais · achetais · French
achetais · rank #39,624 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,624
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accommode
Nearest frequency peer: accommode (-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 « achetais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accentuent
accentuent
60,380 corpus weight
- acceptaient
acceptaient
60,379 corpus weight
- accommode
accommode
60,378 corpus weight
- achetais
achetais
60,377 corpus weight
- achètera
achètera
60,376 corpus weight
- adjuge
adjuge
60,375 corpus weight
What this shows « achetais » 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 | achetais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʃə.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « achetais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around achetais (IPA \a.ʃə.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,624 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for achetais, with forms such as "acchetais", "acehtais", and "acheatis". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "achètes", "achetant", "achetées", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is achetais, spelled A-C-H-E-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how achetais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’achetais au Brésil des flingos qui arrivaient directement des Malouines à des militaires anglais…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchetais
- acehtais
- acheatis
- achetaiss
- achetasi
- achetias
- achettais
- achhetais
- achteais
- ahcetais
- cahetais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achetais - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).