confirmait

\kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\

/\kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“confirmait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,739
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confirmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confirmait · confirmait · French

confirmait · rank #37,739 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,739
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH conditionnés

Nearest frequency peer: conditionnés (-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 « confirmait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « confirmait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

confirmait vs confirment
80% similar
confirmait vs confirmant
90% similar
confirmait vs confiait
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for confirmait
PropertyValue
Headwordconfirmait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#37,739
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confirmait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).confirmaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « conditionnés » (#37,738), « coniques » (#37,740), « compréhensibles » (#37,737). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confirmait » est au #37,739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around confirmait (IPA \kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,739 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confirmer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for confirmait, with forms such as "cconfirmait", "cnofirmait", and "cofnirmait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "confirment", "confirmant", "confiait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is confirmait, spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confirmer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how confirmait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La fameuse vidéo de Penelope Fillon interviewée par le « Sunday Telegraph », dans laquelle l’imprudente confirmait, en mai 2007, sa condition de femme au foyer, recelait d’autres confessions gaguesques.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconfirmait
  • cnofirmait
  • cofnirmait
  • conffirmait
  • confimrait
  • confiramit
  • confirmaitt
  • confirmati
  • confirmiat
  • confirmmait
  • confirrmait
  • confrimait
  • conifrmait
  • connfirmait
  • ocnfirmait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confirmait - 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.

cconfirmait1cnofirmait2cofnirmait2conffirmait1confimrait2confiramit2confirmaitt1confirmati2
Edit distance from "confirmait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confirmait"?
"confirmait" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\.
What does "confirmait" mean?
As a verb, "confirmait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de confirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "confirmait"?
"confirmait" is commonly confused with "confirment", "confirmant", "confiait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confirmait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confirmait" is \kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confirmait" come from?
"confirmait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confirmait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

consensuel#37,741consolidés#37,742contiendra#37,744coercition#37,732

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

charbonnier15 variantschangeante15 variantscargaisons15 variantsbénéficiez15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list