appartenait
\a.paʁ.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“appartenait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,520
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de appartenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appartenait · appartenait · French
appartenait · rank #7,520 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,520
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amical
Nearest frequency peer: amical (-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 « appartenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ajoutée
ajoutée
92,484 corpus weight
- Algérienne
Algérienne
92,483 corpus weight
- amical
amical
92,482 corpus weight
- appartenait
appartenait
92,481 corpus weight
- appli
appli
92,480 corpus weight
- approprié
approprié
92,479 corpus weight
What this shows « appartenait » 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 | appartenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.paʁ.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appartenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around appartenait (IPA \a.paʁ.tə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,520 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de appartenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for appartenait, with forms such as "apaprtenait", "apartenait", and "apparetnait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "apprenait", "appartenir", "appartenant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is appartenait, spelled A-P-P-A-R-T-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de appartenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appartenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui avait scandalisé, la première fois - on m’avait de prime abord caché ce détail - c’est une “petite culotte” retrouvée au fond du lit, et qui n’appartenait pas à Monseigneur puisqu’il avait fallu le “décaleçonner”.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apaprtenait
- apartenait
- apparetnait
- apparrtenait
- apparteanit
- appartenaitt
- appartenati
- apparteniat
- appartennait
- appartneait
- apparttenait
- appatrenait
- appratenait
- papartenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appartenait - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).