connaissait
\kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“connaissait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-connaissait · connaissait · French
connaissait · rank #4,844 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,844
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confort
Nearest frequency peer: confort (-2 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 « connaissait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- citation
citation
95,161 corpus weight
- confort
confort
95,159 corpus weight
- connaissait
connaissait
95,157 corpus weight
- contraintes
contraintes
95,155 corpus weight
- cuir
cuir
95,154 corpus weight
- CV
CV
95,153 corpus weight
What this shows « connaissait » 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 | connaissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connaissait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around connaissait (IPA \kɔ.nɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for connaissait, with forms such as "cconnaissait", "cnonaissait", and "conaissait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "connaissent", "connaissant", "connaîtrait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is connaissait, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de connaître (ou connaitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connaissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous n’hésitâmes pas à choisir le premier, un naturel roux de la tète aux pieds, qui n’avait jamais quitté son île, et en connaissait tous les endroits accessibles.
Il se connaissait, il allait encore se biloter jusqu’au sang.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnaissait
- cnonaissait
- conaissait
- conanissait
- connaisait
- connaisasit
- connaissaitt
- connaissati
- connaissiat
- connasisait
- conniassait
- ocnnaissait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connaissait - 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 "connaissait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).