consistait
\kɔ̃.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“consistait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,643
- 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 consister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consistait · consistait · French
consistait · rank #14,643 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,643
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conquêtes
Nearest frequency peer: conquêtes (-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 « consistait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compromettre
compromettre
85,361 corpus weight
- conjugale
conjugale
85,360 corpus weight
- conquêtes
conquêtes
85,359 corpus weight
- consistait
consistait
85,358 corpus weight
- consomment
consomment
85,357 corpus weight
- continentale
continentale
85,356 corpus weight
What this shows « consistait » 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 | consistait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consistait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around consistait (IPA \kɔ̃.sis.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de consister.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for consistait, with forms such as "cconsistait", "cnosistait", and "conisstait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "consistant", "consistent", "constatait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is consistait, spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de consister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consistait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il triomphait sournoisement de la défaite qui consistait, pour l’autre, à se retirer, à se désolidariser, à le laisser tout seul dans le malheur, à se rencoquiller dans l’ignoble confort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsistait
- cnosistait
- conisstait
- connsistait
- consisatit
- consisstait
- consistaitt
- consistati
- consistiat
- consisttait
- consitsait
- conssistait
- conssitait
- cosnistait
- ocnsistait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consistait - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).