atteignaient
\a.tɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“atteignaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,752
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de atteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atteignaient · atteignaient · French
atteignaient · rank #42,752 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,752
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attaquera
Nearest frequency peer: attaquera (-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 « atteignaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- atrocité
atrocité
57,252 corpus weight
- attaquaient
attaquaient
57,251 corpus weight
- attaquera
attaquera
57,250 corpus weight
- atteignaient
atteignaient
57,249 corpus weight
- atteindront
atteindront
57,248 corpus weight
- Auxerrois
Auxerrois
57,246 corpus weight
What this shows « atteignaient » 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 | atteignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « atteignaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around atteignaient (IPA \a.tɛ.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,752 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de atteindre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for atteignaient, with forms such as "ateignaient", "atetignaient", and "atteginaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "atteignent", "atteignant", "atteignait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is atteignaient, spelled A-T-T-E-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de atteindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how atteignaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, madame de Maufrigneuse restait un ange que les corruptions de la terre n’atteignaient pas : un ange aux Variétés devant ces farces à demi obscènes et populacières qui la faisaient rire, un ange au milieu du feu croisé des délicieuses plaisanteries et des chroniques scandaleuses qui se disaient aux parties fines, un ange pâmée au Vaudeville en loge gr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ateignaient
- atetignaient
- atteginaient
- atteiganient
- atteiggnaient
- atteignaeint
- atteignaiennt
- atteignaientt
- atteignaietn
- atteignainet
- atteigniaent
- atteignnaient
- atteingaient
- attiegnaient
- tateignaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of atteignaient - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).