confiait
\kɔ̃.fjɛ\
The verdict
“confiait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,702
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confiait · confiait · French
confiait · rank #29,702 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compères
Nearest frequency peer: compères (-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 « confiait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- combinent
combinent
70,302 corpus weight
- comparateur
comparateur
70,301 corpus weight
- compères
compères
70,300 corpus weight
- confiait
confiait
70,299 corpus weight
- confient
confient
70,298 corpus weight
- confèrent
confèrent
70,297 corpus weight
What this shows « confiait » 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 | confiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fjɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confiait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around confiait (IPA \kɔ̃.fjɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,702 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for confiait, with forms such as "cconfiait", "cnofiait", and "cofniait". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "confit", "connaît", "conflit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confiait, spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confiait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’appel aux « hôtes », auxquels on confiait ces zones incultes, à charge de les « déroncer, défricher et labourer », aidait à la transformation des rapports sociaux dans les campagnes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfiait
- cnofiait
- cofniait
- confaiit
- conffiait
- confiaitt
- confiati
- confiiat
- conifait
- connfiait
- ocnfiait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confiait - 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 "confiait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).