achetait
\a.ʃə.tɛ\
The verdict
“achetait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,677
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achetait · achetait · French
achetait · rank #27,677 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,677
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abolie
Nearest frequency peer: abolie (-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 « achetait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abcès
abcès
72,326 corpus weight
- abolie
abolie
72,325 corpus weight
- achetait
achetait
72,324 corpus weight
- acolytes
acolytes
72,323 corpus weight
- acquièrent
acquièrent
72,322 corpus weight
- acuité
acuité
72,321 corpus weight
What this shows « achetait » 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 | achetait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʃə.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « achetait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around achetait (IPA \a.ʃə.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,677 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for achetait, with forms such as "acchetait", "acehtait", and "acheatit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "achètent", "arrêtait", "achetant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is achetait, spelled A-C-H-E-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe acheter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achetait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle achetait les onguents, des pots de fard, des crayons, qui traînaient sur tous les meubles, avec des houppettes de poudre de riz et des flacons d’odeur.
La Véganine s’achetait par boîtes ou tubes de quarante comprimés, qui coûtaient à peu près 2,65 francs…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchetait
- acehtait
- acheatit
- achetaitt
- achetati
- achetiat
- achettait
- achhetait
- achteait
- ahcetait
- cahetait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achetait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).