construisit

/\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,331

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

construisit is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire. Pronounced \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\. Often confused with construit and construis.

Key facts for construisit
PropertyValue
Headwordconstruisit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\
Letters11
Frequency rank#36,331
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of construisit in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for construisit is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,331 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for construisit, with forms such as "cconstruisit", "cnostruisit", and "connstruisit". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "construit", "construis", "construisez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is construisit, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconstruisit,cnostruisit,connstruisit,consrtuisit,consstruisit,constriusit,constrruisit,construiist,construisitt,construissit,construisti,construsiit,consttruisit,consturisit,contsruisit,cosntruisit,ocnstruisit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for construisit

Misspelling Variants of "construisit"

cconstruisit12cnostruisit11connstruisit12consrtuisit11consstruisit12constriusit11constrruisit12construiist11
Misspelling Variants of "construisit"

Frequency rank: #36,331 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "construisit"?
"construisit" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\.
What does "construisit" mean?
As a verb, "construisit" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire.
What words are commonly confused with "construisit"?
"construisit" is commonly confused with "construit", "construis", "construisez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "construisit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "construisit" is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "construisit" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.