attaquaient
\a.ta.kɛ\
The verdict
“attaquaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,750
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attaquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attaquaient · attaquaient · French
attaquaient · rank #42,750 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,750
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atrocité
Nearest frequency peer: atrocité (-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 « attaquaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assoiffé
assoiffé
57,254 corpus weight
- atoll
atoll
57,253 corpus weight
- atrocité
atrocité
57,252 corpus weight
- attaquaient
attaquaient
57,251 corpus weight
- attaquera
attaquera
57,250 corpus weight
- atteignaient
atteignaient
57,249 corpus weight
What this shows « attaquaient » 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 | attaquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ta.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attaquaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around attaquaient (IPA \a.ta.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,750 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attaquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for attaquaient, with forms such as "ataquaient", "atatquaient", and "attaqauient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "attaquant", "attaquent", "attaquait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is attaquaient, spelled A-T-T-A-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attaquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attaquaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le sud, en revanche, vers Saint-Philippe ou Sainte-Rose, la mer prenait des allures ombrageuses. Ses déferlantes, écumantes de rage, attaquaient l’île de front, se fracassant contre ses falaises en de tonitruants panaches d’eau et de lumière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ataquaient
- atatquaient
- attaqauient
- attaqquaient
- attaquaeint
- attaquaiennt
- attaquaientt
- attaquaietn
- attaquainet
- attaquiaent
- attauqaient
- attqauaient
- tataquaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attaquaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attaquaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).