demeurait
\də.mœ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“demeurait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,827
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demeurait · demeurait · French
demeurait · rank #23,827 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,827
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dal
Nearest frequency peer: dal (-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 « demeurait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- célébrant
célébrant
76,177 corpus weight
- côtoyé
côtoyé
76,176 corpus weight
- dal
dal
76,175 corpus weight
- demeurait
demeurait
76,174 corpus weight
- derrick
derrick
76,172 corpus weight
- descriptive
descriptive
76,171 corpus weight
What this shows « demeurait » 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 | demeurait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mœ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « demeurait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around demeurait (IPA \də.mœ.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,827 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for demeurait, with forms such as "ddemeurait", "deemurait", and "demeruait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "demeurent", "demeurant", "demeura", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is demeurait, spelled D-E-M-E-U-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demeurait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques oiseaux prenaient leur bain de poussière quotidien sur le sentier qu’ils suivaient, mais le reste de la faune demeurait invisible.
L’abbé Birotteau se dirigeait donc vers cette maison, où il demeurait depuis deux ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemeurait
- deemurait
- demeruait
- demeuarit
- demeuraitt
- demeurati
- demeuriat
- demeurrait
- demmeurait
- demuerait
- dmeeurait
- edmeurait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demeurait - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "demeurait", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).