demandaient
\də.mɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“demandaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,607. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,607
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demandaient · demandaient · French
demandaient · rank #15,607 · 16 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,607
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crétin
Nearest frequency peer: crétin (-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 « demandaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Corinne
Corinne
84,397 corpus weight
- crétin
crétin
84,395 corpus weight
- demandaient
demandaient
84,394 corpus weight
- dev
dev
84,393 corpus weight
- dunes
dunes
84,392 corpus weight
- Dupuis
Dupuis
84,391 corpus weight
What this shows « demandaient » 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 | demandaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « demandaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around demandaient (IPA \də.mɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,607 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for demandaient, with forms such as "ddemandaient", "deamndaient", and "demadnaient". 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, "demandent", "demandant", "demandait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is demandaient, spelled D-E-M-A-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demandaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette semaine encore, l’équipe des Cisailles a cessé le travail ; les cisailleurs demandaient 30 francs de l’heure d'augmentation et l'amélioration de la prime de production.
Malgré les flashes stroboscopiques aveuglants et l’obscurité du dance floor, Zef pouvait se rincer l’œil – le seul qu’il eût, par ailleurs – à sa guise, et contempler ces dizaines de fesses bien galbées qui se trémoussaient devant lui, et aussi tous ces seins pesants que les crop tops avaient du mal à contenir, tant ils sautillaient et ne demandaient qu’à…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemandaient
- deamndaient
- demadnaient
- demanadient
- demandaeint
- demandaiennt
- demandaientt
- demandaietn
- demandainet
- demanddaient
- demandiaent
- demanndaient
- demmandaient
- demnadaient
- dmeandaient
- edmandaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demandaient - 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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Same letter count
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