craignait
\kʁɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“craignait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,843
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craignait · craignait · French
craignait · rank #15,843 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,843
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convenablement
Nearest frequency peer: convenablement (-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 « craignait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- continueront
continueront
84,162 corpus weight
- contrefaçon
contrefaçon
84,161 corpus weight
- convaincant
convaincant
84,160 corpus weight
- convenablem…
convenablement
84,159 corpus weight
- craignait
craignait
84,158 corpus weight
- croate
croate
84,157 corpus weight
What this shows « craignait » 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 | craignait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craignait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around craignait (IPA \kʁɛ.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for craignait, with forms such as "carignait", "ccraignait", and "craginait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "craignent", "craignant", "craignais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is craignait, spelled C-R-A-I-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craignait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ahmed Abdou s’effrayait aussitôt, et craignait que la graine dure et traîtresse, cachée sous les fibres, ne blessât la fillette.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carignait
- ccraignait
- craginait
- craiganit
- craiggnait
- craignaitt
- craignati
- craigniat
- craignnait
- craingait
- criagnait
- crraignait
- rcaignait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craignait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "craignait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).