connaissais
\kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“connaissais” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,739
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-connaissais · connaissais · French
connaissais · rank #4,739 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,739
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concentrer
Nearest frequency peer: concentrer (-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 « connaissais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- collections
collections
95,265 corpus weight
- combinaison
combinaison
95,264 corpus weight
- concentrer
concentrer
95,263 corpus weight
- connaissais
connaissais
95,262 corpus weight
- contacter
contacter
95,261 corpus weight
- conte
conte
95,260 corpus weight
What this shows « connaissais » 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 | connaissais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connaissais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around connaissais (IPA \kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,739 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for connaissais, with forms such as "cconnaissais", "cnonaissais", and "conaissais". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "connaisses", "connaissait", "connaissons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is connaissais, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connaissais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne connaissais pas les coutumes de la jeunesse estrienne.
– Parfois, tu me lisais des histoires à voix haute. Tu t’en souviens ? Tu n’avais pratiquement pas besoin de consulter le livre, tu les connaissais sur le bout des doigts."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnaissais
- cnonaissais
- conaissais
- conanissais
- connaisais
- connaisasis
- connaissaiss
- connaissasi
- connaissias
- connasisais
- conniassais
- ocnnaissais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connaissais - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).