descendait
\dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“descendait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,512. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,512
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendait · descendait · French
descendait · rank #28,512 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,512
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dandy
Nearest frequency peer: dandy (-3 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 « descendait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crémaillère
crémaillère
71,494 corpus weight
- cèdre
cèdre
71,493 corpus weight
- dandy
dandy
71,492 corpus weight
- descendait
descendait
71,489 corpus weight
- diagrammes
diagrammes
71,486 corpus weight
- différentie…
différentielle
71,485 corpus weight
What this shows « descendait » 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 | descendait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around descendait (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,512 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de descendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendait, with forms such as "ddescendait", "decsendait", and "desccendait". 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, "descendit", "descendant", "descendent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is descendait, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descendait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, il partit avec le Kommando chargé de désenneiger la route qui descendait vers Neumarktl.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendait
- decsendait
- desccendait
- descednait
- descenadit
- descendaitt
- descendati
- descenddait
- descendiat
- descenndait
- descnedait
- desecndait
- desscendait
- dsecendait
- edscendait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendait - 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 "descendait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).