continuait
\kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\
The verdict
“continuait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,999
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continuait · continuait · French
continuait · rank #13,999 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,999
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contestée
Nearest frequency peer: contestée (-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 « continuait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conclue
conclue
86,005 corpus weight
- connexions
connexions
86,004 corpus weight
- contestée
contestée
86,003 corpus weight
- continuait
continuait
86,002 corpus weight
- cor
cor
86,001 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondants
86,000 corpus weight
What this shows « continuait » 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 | continuait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continuait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around continuait (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,999 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for continuait, with forms such as "ccontinuait", "cnotinuait", and "conitnuait". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "continuent", "continuité", "continuant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is continuait, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de continuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how continuait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mais, tandis que l’arabe renonçait à aspirer et spirantiser les muettes précédées d’une voyelle, l’araméen continuait ce procédé, mais désaspirait le θ et le δ, de sorte que ces deux langues par des moyens différents arrivaient au même but : la suppression de la confusion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinuait
- cnotinuait
- conitnuait
- conntinuait
- continauit
- continnuait
- continuaitt
- continuati
- continuiat
- contiunait
- contniuait
- conttinuait
- cotninuait
- ocntinuait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continuait - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).