contrôlait

\kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\

/\kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“contrôlait” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,112
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contrôler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-controlait · contrôlait · French

contrôlait · rank #30,112 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,112
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH contrepoids

Nearest frequency peer: contrepoids (-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 « contrôlait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « contrôlait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

contrôlait vs contrôlent
80% similar
contrôlait vs contrôlant
90% similar
contrôlait vs contrôlaient
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for contrôlait
PropertyValue
Headwordcontrôlait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#30,112
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrôlait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).contrôlaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « contrepoids » (#30,111), « corsaires » (#30,113), « continus » (#30,110). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « contrôlait » est au #30,112. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around contrôlait (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contrôler.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrôlait, with forms such as "ccontrôlait", "cnotrôlait", and "conntrôlait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contrôlent", "contrôlant", "contrôlaient", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contrôlait, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contrôler.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccontrôlait
  • cnotrôlait
  • conntrôlait
  • conrtôlait
  • contrlôait
  • controlait
  • contrrôlait
  • contrôalit
  • contrôlaitt
  • contrôlati
  • contrôliat
  • contrôllait
  • conttrôlait
  • contôrlait
  • cotnrôlait
  • ocntrôlait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrôlait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccontrôlait1cnotrôlait2conntrôlait1conrtôlait2contrlôait2controlait1contrrôlait1contrôalit2
Edit distance from "contrôlait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contrôlait"?
"contrôlait" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\.
What does "contrôlait" mean?
As a verb, "contrôlait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contrôler.
What words are commonly confused with "contrôlait"?
"contrôlait" is commonly confused with "contrôlent", "contrôlant", "contrôlaient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contrôlait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contrôlait" is \kɔ̃.tʁo.lɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contrôlait" come from?
"contrôlait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contrôlait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

cultivateur16 variantsconditionnée16 variantsentretenues16 variantsfacultative16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list