descendaient
\dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“descendaient” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,593
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendaient · descendaient · French
descendaient · rank #49,593 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,593
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demanderez
Nearest frequency peer: demanderez (-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 « descendaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- céphalées
céphalées
50,411 corpus weight
- declare
declare
50,410 corpus weight
- demanderez
demanderez
50,409 corpus weight
- descendaient
descendaient
50,408 corpus weight
- dessina
dessina
50,406 corpus weight
- diapositives
diapositives
50,405 corpus weight
What this shows « descendaient » 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 | descendaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #49,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around descendaient (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,593 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de descendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendaient, with forms such as "ddescendaient", "decsendaient", and "desccendaient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "descendant", "descendent", "descendait", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is descendaient, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descendaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était coiffée de cheveux qui descendaient en ringlets le long de ses joues, et les accompagnaient suivant la mode anglaise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendaient
- decsendaient
- desccendaient
- descednaient
- descenadient
- descendaeint
- descendaiennt
- descendaientt
- descendaietn
- descendainet
- descenddaient
- descendiaent
- descenndaient
- descnedaient
- desecndaient
- desscendaient
- dsecendaient
- edscendaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descendaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).