allaient
\a.lɛ\
The verdict
“allaient” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allaient · allaient · French
allaient · rank #4,305 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,305
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agression
Nearest frequency peer: agression (-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 « allaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- acide
acide
95,699 corpus weight
- adversaires
adversaires
95,698 corpus weight
- agression
agression
95,697 corpus weight
- allaient
allaient
95,696 corpus weight
- appelait
appelait
95,695 corpus weight
- appelés
appelés
95,694 corpus weight
What this shows « allaient » 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 | allaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around allaient (IPA \a.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait aller.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for allaient, with forms such as "alaient", "alalient", and "allaeint". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "allait", "allant", "allain", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 allaient, spelled A-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait aller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des foules de mots allaient rejoindre d’autres foules de mots dans les contrées de l’inutile.
Les jeunes gens rebutés, s’en allaient « raoûer » à Crépey, à Germiny, à Bagneux, à Punerot et jusqu’à Soulosse-sous-Saint-Elophe pour y trouver chaussure à leur pied.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alaient
- alalient
- allaeint
- allaiennt
- allaientt
- allaietn
- allainet
- alliaent
- lalaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allaient - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).