demandait
\də.mɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“demandait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demandait · demandait · French
demandait · rank #5,857 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,857
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céréales
Nearest frequency peer: céréales (-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 « demandait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- criminelle
criminelle
94,148 corpus weight
- crises
crises
94,147 corpus weight
- céréales
céréales
94,145 corpus weight
- demandait
demandait
94,144 corpus weight
- descend
descend
94,143 corpus weight
- distinguer
distinguer
94,142 corpus weight
What this shows « demandait » 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 | demandait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « demandait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around demandait (IPA \də.mɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,857 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for demandait, with forms such as "ddemandait", "deamndait", and "demadnait". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "demandent", "demandant", "dépendait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is demandait, spelled D-E-M-A-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demandait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En particulier, le juge italien demandait si cette disposition imposait aux juges nationaux de désappliquer les normes internes contraires au droit de la C.E.D.H.
Il se demandait s’il méritait d’être un athlète de Coupe du monde.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemandait
- deamndait
- demadnait
- demanadit
- demandaitt
- demandati
- demanddait
- demandiat
- demanndait
- demmandait
- demnadait
- dmeandait
- edmandait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demandait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).