continuaient
\kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\
The verdict
“continuaient” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,495
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continuaient · continuaient · French
continuaient · rank #23,495 · 17 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,495
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuerai
Nearest frequency peer: continuerai (+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 « continuaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- communautar…
communautarisme
76,510 corpus weight
- confesse
confesse
76,509 corpus weight
- contagieuse
contagieuse
76,508 corpus weight
- continuaient
continuaient
76,506 corpus weight
- continuerai
continuerai
76,505 corpus weight
- coulisse
coulisse
76,502 corpus weight
What this shows « continuaient » 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 | continuaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #23,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continuaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around continuaient (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,495 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for continuaient, with forms such as "ccontinuaient", "cnotinuaient", and "conitnuaient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "continuent", "continuant", "continuait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 continuaient, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how continuaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fait que le dieu-fleuve Rhin avait laissé s’édifier un tel pont, dont la destruction avait été à l’initiative du seul César, montrait bien que les divinités, contrairement à ce que disait Caton, étaient favorables à celui qu’elles continuaient à reconnaître comme le pontifex maximus du populus Romanus : pontifex maximus parce que constructeur d’un très…
... ils ne flanchaient pas, malgré les rafales, la pluie et le tonnerre, malgré les vagues qui venaient les faire trébucher, se relevaient les uns les autres, continuaient à treuiller en enroulant la corde autour de l’arbre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinuaient
- cnotinuaient
- conitnuaient
- conntinuaient
- continauient
- continnuaient
- continuaeint
- continuaiennt
- continuaientt
- continuaietn
- continuainet
- continuiaent
- contiunaient
- contniuaient
- conttinuaient
- cotninuaient
- ocntinuaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continuaient - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).