allait
\a.lɛ\
The verdict
“allait” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allait · allait · French
allait · rank #1,053 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,053
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH al
Nearest frequency peer: al (-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 « allait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vacances
vacances
98,951 corpus weight
- actions
actions
98,950 corpus weight
- al
al
98,949 corpus weight
- allait
allait
98,948 corpus weight
- américaine
américaine
98,947 corpus weight
- change
change
98,946 corpus weight
What this shows « allait » 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 | allait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around allait (IPA \a.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aller.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for allait, with forms such as "alait", "alalit", and "allaitt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "avait", "allié", "Allan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is allait, spelled A-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how allait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’employé, toujours perplexe, après n’avoir pu décider dans son esprit à qui il remettrait la plume en premier lieu, allait, pour ne froisser personne, la retremper dans l’encrier, afin qu’il n’y ait point de préférence à manifester, lorsqu’il s’arrêta net, gardant le porte-plume entre ses doigts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alait
- alalit
- allaitt
- allati
- alliat
- lalait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).