attendait
\a.tɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“attendait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de attendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attendait · attendait · French
attendait · rank #4,041 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Arthur
Nearest frequency peer: Arthur (-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 « attendait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arbitre
arbitre
95,963 corpus weight
- arguments
arguments
95,962 corpus weight
- Arthur
Arthur
95,961 corpus weight
- attendait
attendait
95,960 corpus weight
- banlieue
banlieue
95,958 corpus weight
- be
be
95,957 corpus weight
What this shows « attendait » 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 | attendait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attendait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around attendait (IPA \a.tɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,041 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de attendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for attendait, with forms such as "atendait", "atetndait", and "attednait". 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, "attentat", "attendit", "attendant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is attendait, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de attendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attendait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le roi l’attendait au haut des degrés du palais de Philippe-le-Bel; et là, les deux monarques, dit Juvenal des Ursins, s’entraccolèrent et firent grande chère l’un à l’autre.
Certes, on lui avait bien dit que ça ne serait pas facile de faire son « écolage » sous les ordres de Lorenzoni, mais il s’attendait plus à des ouragans qu’à cette petite brise tiédasse !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atendait
- atetndait
- attednait
- attenadit
- attendaitt
- attendati
- attenddait
- attendiat
- attenndait
- attnedait
- tatendait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attendait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).