construisit
\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\
The verdict
“construisit” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,331
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-construisit · construisit · French
construisit · rank #36,331 · 17 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,331
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitutive
Nearest frequency peer: constitutive (-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 « construisit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consanguini…
consanguinité
63,673 corpus weight
- conservait
conservait
63,672 corpus weight
- constitutive
constitutive
63,671 corpus weight
- construisit
construisit
63,670 corpus weight
- continental…
continentales
63,669 corpus weight
- coopérations
coopérations
63,668 corpus weight
What this shows « construisit » 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 | construisit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « construisit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around construisit (IPA \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,331 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is construisit, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de construire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how construisit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y construisit une cabane vétérinaire et demanda à sa sœur de venir désécloper les accidentés de la vie en forêt.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of construisit - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).